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Installing WordPress a 2-tier application through Ansible

WordPress is a 2-tier application where we need to install a DB.

Here we will Take the same approach as we took in the last blog i.e. by using roles we will install the DB and WordPress application.

• Create the directory as follows

  

• Now, under main.yaml. Write the YAML for creating a DB

    ---
    - name: Installing mariadb
      yum: 
        name: "{{ item }}"
        state: latest
      with_items: ["MySQL-python","mariadb-server"]
  
    - name: enable mariadb service
      systemd:
        name: mariadb
        enabled: true
  
    - name: Start mariadb service
      systemd:
        name: mariadb
        state: started
  
    - name: Create a New Database with Name given by user
      mysql_db:
        name: "{{ DBNAME }}"
        state: present
  
    - name: Create Database user with name fiven by user and password given by user with all db privileges
      mysql_user:
        name: "{{ DBUSER }}"
        password: "{{ DBPASS }}"
        priv: '*.*:ALL'
        state: present
        host: '%'
  

  

• Now, create a directory app1 and app1.yaml file in it

    ---
    - name: Installing Database
      hosts: Node-1
      vars:
        DBNAME: "devopswala"
        DBUSER: "admin"
        DBPASS: "admin123"
      roles:
        - db
  

  

• Now run the playbook for app1.

  

• Now, Go to Node-1 and verify that we can see the Maria DB installed along with DB name and username-password

  

  

• Now under roles create a new directory named WordPress and under that create subdirectories named handlers, tasks and templates.

  

Now, under the templates directory create a file named wp-config.php and copy the following content

//Copy this Template
<?php
/**
 * The base configuration for WordPress
 *
 * The wp-config.php creation script uses this file during the installation.
 * You don't have to use the web site, you can copy this file to "wp-config.php"
 * and fill in the values.
 *
 * This file contains the following configurations:
 *
 * * Database settings
 * * Secret keys
 * * Database table prefix
 * * ABSPATH
 *
 * @link https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/editing-wp-config-php/
 *
 * @package WordPress
 */

// ** Database settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define( 'DB_NAME', 'database_name_here' );

/** Database username */
define( 'DB_USER', 'username_here' );

/** Database password */
define( 'DB_PASSWORD', 'password_here' );

/** Database hostname */
define( 'DB_HOST', 'localhost' );

/** Database charset to use in creating database tables. */
define( 'DB_CHARSET', 'utf8' );

/** The database collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */
define( 'DB_COLLATE', '' );

/**#@+
 * Authentication unique keys and salts.
 *
 * Change these to different unique phrases! You can generate these using
 * the {@link https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/ WordPress.org secret-key service}.
 *
 * You can change these at any point in time to invalidate all existing cookies.
 * This will force all users to have to log in again.
 *
 * @since 2.6.0
 */
define( 'AUTH_KEY',         'put your unique phrase here' );
define( 'SECURE_AUTH_KEY',  'put your unique phrase here' );
define( 'LOGGED_IN_KEY',    'put your unique phrase here' );
define( 'NONCE_KEY',        'put your unique phrase here' );
define( 'AUTH_SALT',        'put your unique phrase here' );
define( 'SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here' );
define( 'LOGGED_IN_SALT',   'put your unique phrase here' );
define( 'NONCE_SALT',       'put your unique phrase here' );

/**#@-*/

/**
 * WordPress database table prefix.
 *
 * You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each
 * a unique prefix. Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!
 */
$table_prefix = 'wp_';

/**
 * For developers: WordPress debugging mode.
 *
 * Change this to true to enable the display of notices during development.
 * It is strongly recommended that plugin and theme developers use WP_DEBUG
 * in their development environments.
 *
 * For information on other constants that can be used for debugging,
 * visit the documentation.
 *
 * @link https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/debugging-in-wordpress/
 */
define( 'WP_DEBUG', false );

/* Add any custom values between this line and the "stop editing" line. */



/* That's all, stop editing! Happy publishing. */

/** Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */
if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) {
    define( 'ABSPATH', __DIR__ . '/' );
}

/** Sets up WordPress vars and included files. */
require_once ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php';

• Under the wp-config.php change the following values

  

• Now, navigate to tasks create a file main.yaml and write the code as follows

    ---
    - name: Installing PHP
      command: amazon-linux-extras install -y lamp-mariadb10.2-php7.2 php7.2
  
    - name: Install Apache
      yum:
        name: httpd
        state: latest
    - name: enable httpd
      systemd:
        name: httpd
        enabled: true
    - name: download and untar wordpress
      unarchive:
        src: https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
        dest: /var/www/html/
        remote_src: yes
        owner: apache
        group: apache
    - name: placing wp-config.php file
      template:
        src: wp-config.php
        dest: /var/www/html/wp-config.php
        owner: apache
        group: apache
      notify: restart apache
  

  

  

• Now, under Handlers create another main.yaml as follows

    ---
    - name: restart apache
      systemd:
        name: httpd
        state: restarted
  

  

• Let's see how the WordPress app files look like

  

• Now, Let's come to our app1.yaml and call all these roles from there

    ---
    - name: Installing Database
      hosts: Node-1
      vars:
        DBNAME: "devopswala"
        DBUSER: "admin"
        DBPASS: "admin123"
      roles:
        - db
  
    - name: Installing Wordpress
      hosts: Node-2
      vars:
        DBNAME: "devopswala"
        DBUSER: "admin"
        DBPASS: "admin123"
        DBSERVER: "3.95.226.114"
      roles:
        - wordpress
  

• Let's execute the playbook.

  

  Hence, We saw we could deploy a 2-tier application with the help of the Above YAML roles.