Setup Wordpress on ubuntu linux EC2 instance using ansible and automate this using a cloud formation template
Objective:
Use CM tools such as Puppet, Ansible, or Chef to automate the installation of basic Drupal or WordPress.Setup a sample site. Automate the solution using Cloudformation template.
Deliverable:
A cloudformation template that accepts user inputs as parameters where applicable ( for example, Admin password). This template should setup VPC, create subnets, launch a CM instance, pull the necessary code (modules, classes, recipes etc) from a GIT repo (or S3), and configure the web instance for basic Drupal or Wordpress setup.
Approach:
Step 1: For this assessment, I set up a test environment on VMWare Workstation to install wordpress on localhost using ansible(using a Ubuntu Linux image).
Step 2: Created a playbook for the installation of Apache, MySQL, PHP, Wordpress in the test Environment.
Step 3: After success of Step 2, I pushed this playbook to my GitHub account.
Step 4: Built a CloudFormation Template with parameters(Name.Password,.,etc;) and resources(VPC,subnets.,etc;) mentioned in the rerqurirements
Step 5: Installed necessary packages(git, ansible, cfn-heat ...) to download the repo(mentioned in step3), run playbook, wait handle and referencing parameters in Userdata.
Step 6: Tested the functioning of the CFT and pushed the Repository to GitHub https://github.com/sriramgaddipati/UbuntuAnsible
To Build the stack:
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Download this repository https://github.com/sriramgaddipati/UbuntuAnsible .
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Create a stack using CloudFormation.json file in cloud formation.
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Fill parameters of Stackname, DatabaseName, DBUser, DBPassword.. and choose an existing keypair for SSH connection.
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The User parameters will give you access to corresponding mysqlDB and user on EC2 instance built.
Output:
Stack up and running, able to access EC2 instance and MySQLDB with input username and password.
