In this article, you will get some information on the creation of Drupal role for further running of Ansible playbook.
Create a new directory for "drupal" role and subdirectories for tasks.
mkdir -p roles/drupal/tasksNow, create a new YAML file to write the tasks of "drupal" role.
nano roles/drupal/tasks/main.yamlThe Composer is used to manage the dependencies of a php-based project. Since we will be cloning the Git repository onto the server, we will require Composer to install the dependencies. Notice the "creates" keyword in the arguments. It simply verifies if the said file is created or not. The next task installs the Git.
Now that Git is installed, clone the Drush repository using the "git" module of the Ansible. Drush is a command line tool to install Drupal.
- name: clone Drush repository
git:
repo: https://github.com/drush-ops/drush.git
version: "9.3.0"
dest: /opt/drushCreate a soft link so that the Drush executable is called directly. The "file" module is used to create the soft links. Then install MySQL client. MySQL client is used by Drush to write the Drupal database.
- name: install mysql client
package: name=mysql-client state=presentCreate the directory to install Drupal. The "file" module is also used to create the directory.
- name: create the Drupal install directory
file:
path: "{{ drupal_site_path }}"
state: directoryClone the Drupal repository.
- name: clone Drupal repository
git:
repo: http://git.drupal.org/project/drupal.git
version: "{{ drupal_version }}"
dest: "{{ drupal_site_path }}"Install the Drupal dependencies with the Composer.
- name: install Drupal dependencies with Composer
shell: composer install
args:
chdir: "{{ drupal_site_path }}"
creates: "{{ drupal_site_path }}/vendor/autoload.php"Use Drush executable to install Drupal. We have used Ansible variables for providing the website name and the administrator credentials in the variable file.
- name: install Drupal
shell: drush si -y --site-name="{{ drupal_site_name }}" --account-name={{ drupal_admin_username }} --account-pass="{{ drupal_admin_pass }}" --db-url=mysql://{{ drupal_db_user }}:{{ drupal_db_pass }}@{{ hostvars['db-server']['ansible_default_ipv4']['address'] }}/{{ drupal_db_name }}
args:
chdir: "{{ drupal_site_path }}"
Finally, set the proper ownership and permissions on Drupal directories and files.
- name: set proper ownership
file:
path: "{{ drupal_site_path }}"
owner: www-data
group: www-data
recurse: yes
- name: set permissions on the settings file
file:
path: "{{ drupal_site_path }}/sites/default/settings.php"
mode: 0744
- name: set permissions on files direcotry
file:
path: "{{ drupal_site_path }}/sites/default/files"
mode: 0777
state: directory
recurse: yesSave the file and exit from the editor. The role for installing the Drupal is also created. Since we have used some variable in the role we have created, let's add them in the global variable file we have created.
Edit the common global variables file.
nano group_vars/all.yamlAppend the following variables at the end of the line.
# Drupal Variables
drupal_version: 8.5.3
drupal_site_path: "/var/www/drupal"
drupal_site_name: "My Drupal Site"
drupal_admin_username: admin
drupal_admin_pass: StrongPassOur Drupal website is now installed, but we will need to install NGINX web-server to expose the Drupal site to the internet. The last role "nginx" in our Ansible playbook will install the NGINX web-server along with optional SSL support by let's encrypt CA. The user can set the variable to true to generate the let's encrypt certificate in the global variables file. If the SSL cert is generated, then we will configure Drupal to be accessed from the domain name. Else, the Drupal site will be accessed from the IP address of the "web-server" instance.
For how to create Nginx role and run the playbook, please go to this tutorial.
In this three-part tutorial, we will be deploying Drupal 8 using Ansible Playbook on an Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance. Specifically, we will learn more about writing a modular playbook for Ansible. Each group of tasks will be separated by a specific role in our playbook. In the first part of the tutorial, we will be looking at creating our project and overriding the default Ansible behavior. In the second part of the tutorial, we will write the plays into roles. In the last part of the tutorial, we'll be executing the playbook using Ansible after writing the remaining roles.
In this article, you will get some information on the creation of the roles for our playbook to deploy drupal 8.
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