eqpress

Ansible to build press servers. wordpress server infrastructure

Requirements

3 - Servers (2 press, 1 provision) Tested on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

1 - System (controller 'local') used to install to servers. This will also be place to push out updates. Tested on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Debian 12

Dependencies

Ansible v2.15+

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS +

Note: Tested and developed for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Install

First: Setup 4 Systems 2 PRESS servers (recommend at least 2CPU, 16G RAM, 20G DISK) 1 PROVISION server (recommend at least 2CPU, 4G RAM, 10G DISK) 1 CONTROLLER system (recommend at least 1CPU, 2G RAM 10G DISK)

Note: Best if all are same Linux Distribution

Second: Pick a admin user, non-root, and create that user on all the systems. Third: Setup /etc/sudoers "user ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL" for this user on all systems. Forth: setup key login from CONTROLLER to all systems Fifth: Install ansible on CONTROLLER.

At this point you should be able to get started

sudo apt install git-core

git clone this repo on your CONTROLLER in user account you created above.

sudo apt install ansible python3-passlib

If using docker [default], make sure you have community.docker version 3.8.1 or above.

Check by running "ansible-galaxy collection list | grep community.docker"

You can install by "ansible-galaxy collection install community.docker"

Change to your repository directory

run: ansible-playbook playbooks/init-local.yml -i localhost.init ansible-playbook playbooks/init-press.yml vi config/inventory/hosts and add your [group] you named in the init-press

  example: If you chose testservers1 as your group then
           you would write the servers in like this.
           Replace <user> and <ip addr> with correct values.

   [testservers1]
   server1.name.com ansible_ssh_user=<user> ansible_ssh_host=<ip addr>
   server2.name.com ansible_ssh_user=<user> ansible_ssh_host=<ip addr>

# If the host names are not added to DNS, add to your local /etc/hosts file or some
# tasks will fail

ansible-playbook playbooks/press.yml -l testservers1

You should now have 2 press servers running

Next: The provision server run: ansible-playbook playbooks/init-provision.yml Add the provision server to group [provision] in hosts like;

   [provision]
   myprovision.name.com

 ansible-playbook playbooks/provision.yml

On provision server, chdir 'cd /home/wordpress' and install wordpress source 'latest.tar.gz'. ie; wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

License

Author Information

Thank you to Victor and his work on easypress that this was created largely after with his permission.