PHP role usage on Debian Buster in Chapter 6 may need update

[geerlingguy]

From this issue: geerlingguy/ansible-role-php#281

@luisnabais said:

Maybe it should be updated/corrected on the Ansible for Devops book, on page "142", Chapter 6 - Playbook Organization - Roles, Includes, and Imports.

Regarding the example in a debian10 Vagrant Box, he got the error:

TASK [geerlingguy.php : Ensure PHP packages are installed.] ************************************************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [debian]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "No package matching 'php7.0-common' is available"}

[geerlingguy]

I'm assuming the example is related to:

---
- hosts: all
  become: yes

  roles:
    - geerlingguy.mysql
    - geerlingguy.apache
    - geerlingguy.php
    - geerlingguy.php-mysql

[geerlingguy]

I just tried that example with the following Vagrantfile:

# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :

VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
  config.vm.box = "geerlingguy/ubuntu2004"
  config.vm.network :private_network, ip: "192.168.18.8"
  config.vm.hostname = "lampy.test"
  config.ssh.insert_key = false

  config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |v|
    v.memory = 1024
  end

  # Ansible provisioning.
  config.vm.provision "ansible" do |ansible|
    ansible.playbook = "playbook.yml"
  end
end

And I ran into the same error:

TASK [geerlingguy.php : Ensure PHP packages are installed.] ********************
fatal: [default]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "No package matching 'php7.0-common' is available"}

So yeah, it would be good to get the PHP role updated to work with the latest versions of Ubuntu and Debian!

[geerlingguy]

I'm going to wrap both of those playbooks into the automated tests included with this repository, too, so if there's an issue in the future it will be easier to trace!