The stack_config role

Now that we have our base software stack installed we need to configure it, let’s start by creating the role by running the following command:

$ ansible-galaxy role init roles/stack_config

This gives us the basic file structure needed for the stack_config role. With that in place, we can now look at configuring the role itself – in this role, we will need to do the following:

• Add a system user for our WordPress installation to run under
• Configure NGINX as per the best practices on the WordPress documentation
• Configure PHP-FPM to run as the WordPress user we created earlier

As we need a user for WordPress to run under, we should make a start there.

WordPress system user

The defaults for the WordPress system user, which should be placed in roles/stackconfig/defaults/main.yml, are as follows:

wordpress_system:
  user: "wordpress"
  group: "php-fpm"
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