This Ansible Playbook is designed to setup a highly optimized environment on a production server without the configuration hassle. I modified and mixed several deployment scripts to get create the optimized system ready for Wordpress installs. It includes the ability to install multiple hostnames on a single server.
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Note: Please review this playbook to ensure I'm not installing malicious software.
This Playbook will setup:
- MariaDB (A drop in replacement for MySQL)
- PHP (Native php7.1 from the official Ubuntu 16.04 repo)
- Nginx
- Memcached
- Fail2Ban
- Ferm (Firewall iptable management)
- sSMTP
- WP-CLI
- SSH onto a newly created server
1.5. Add necessary Apt package (if not already installed) with
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common - Add Ansible with
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ansible/ansible - Update Apt with
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade - Install Git and Ansible with
sudo apt-get install ansible git - Clone this repository with
git clone https://github.com/Freshclicks/fresh-deploy.git - Move into
cd fresh-deploy - Edit the
sudo nano hostsfile and your host name. If you have more than one website that you want to install on this server add each on a new line. - Edit the
sudo nano group_vars/allfile and include your SMTP settings. - Run Ansible with
sudo ansible-playbook -i hosts playbook.yml -c local. If you have any errors please open a new issue in this repository. (It may fail the first time. Just run it again and you should be good to go) - Remove the cloned git directory from your server with
rm -rf fresh-deploy/ - Run
/usr/bin/mysql_secure_installationto secure MariaDB. Your root password will be root by default - Restart Nginx with:
sudo service nginx restart - You're good to go!
Please report any issues through GitHub or email me at lary@freshclicks.net and I'll do my best to get back to you!