Deploying WordPress

In the previous chapter, we built a playbook that installs and configures a basic LAMP stack. In this chapter, we will be building on top of the techniques we used there to create a playbook that installs a LEMP stack, which, as you might recall, replaces Apache with NGINX and then installs WordPress.

Once we finish this chapter, you should be able to do the following:

• Prepare our initial playbook
• Download and install the WordPress CLI
• Install and configure WordPress
• Log in to your WordPress installation

The chapter covers the following topics:

• Preinstallation tasks
• The stack_install role
• The stack_config role
• The wordpress role
• Running the WordPress playbook

Before we start, we should quickly cover what WordPress is; you have likely visited a website powered by WordPress at some point in the last 24 hours.

It is an open-source content management system (CMS) powered by PHP and MySQL and used by around...