Summary

In this chapter, we worked through writing a playbook that installs a LAMP stack on our Multipass virtual machine. We created four roles, one for each element of the stack, and within each of the roles, we built in a bit of logic that can be overridden to deploy additional elements, such as test HTML and PHP pages, and we also built in the option to create a test database that contains over 40,000 records.

So far, we installed some basic packages. In the next chapter, we will write a playbook that installs, configures, and maintains a WordPress installation.

This updated playbook will reuse some of the elements from the roles we covered in this chapter and make some improvements, as some of the elements we covered in this chapter were a little too simplistic. The biggest change is that we will not use a hardcoded password for the database instance moving forward.