Ansible Role: Drupal

Builds and installs Drupal, an open source content management platform.

Requirements

Drupal is a PHP-based application that is meant to run behind a typical LAMP/LEMP/LEPP/etc. stack, so you'll need at least the following:

• Apache or Nginx (Recommended: geerlingguy.apache or geerlingguy.nginx)
• MySQL or similar Database server (Recommended: geerlingguy.mysql or geerlingguy.postgresql)
• PHP (Recommended: geerlingguy.php along with other PHP-related roles like php-mysql).

Drush is not an absolute requirement, but it's handy to have, and also required if you use this role to Install a Drupal site (drupal_install_site: true). You can use geerlingguy.drush to install Drush.

Git is not an absolute requirement, but is required if you're deploying from a Git repository (e.g. drupal_deploy: true). You can use geerlingguy.git to install Git.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

Deploy an existing project with Git

drupal_deploy: false
drupal_deploy_repo: ""
drupal_deploy_version: master
drupal_deploy_update: true
drupal_deploy_dir: "/var/www/drupal"
drupal_deploy_accept_hostkey: false

Set drupal_deploy to true and drupal_build_composer* to false if you would like to deploy Drupal to your server from an existing Git repository. The other options all apply to the Git checkout operation:

• repo: Git repository address
• version: can be a branch, tag, or commit hash
• update: whether the repository should be updated to the latest commit, if version is a branch
• dir: The directory into which the repository will be checked out
• accept_hostkey: Whether to automatically accept the Git server's hostkey on the first connection.

You can also control whether a composer install is run after the git clone is finished using the following variable:

drupal_deploy_composer_install: true

Build a project from a Drush Make file

drupal_build_makefile: false
drush_makefile_path: "/path/to/drupal.make.yml"
drush_make_options: "--no-gitinfofile"

Set this to true and drupal_build_composer* to false if you would like to build a Drupal make file with Drush.

Build a project from a Composer file

drupal_build_composer: false
drupal_composer_path: "/path/to/drupal.composer.json"
drupal_composer_install_dir: "/var/www/drupal"
drupal_composer_dependencies:
  - "drupal/devel:^1.2"

Set drupal_build_makefile to false and this to true if you are using a Composer-based site deployment strategy.

Create a new project using drupal-project (Composer)

drupal_build_composer_project: true
drupal_composer_project_package: "drupal-composer/drupal-project:8.x-dev"
drupal_composer_project_options: "--prefer-dist --stability dev --no-interaction"

Set this to true and drupal_build_makefile, drupal_build_composer to false if you are using Composer's create-project as a site deployment strategy.

Required Drupal site settings

drupal_core_path: "{{ drupal_deploy_dir }}/web"
drupal_core_owner: "{{ ansible_ssh_user | default(ansible_env.SUDO_USER, true) | default(ansible_env.USER, true) | default(ansible_user_id) }}"
drupal_db_user: drupal
drupal_db_password: drupal
drupal_db_name: drupal
drupal_db_backend: mysql
drupal_db_host: "127.0.0.1"

Required Drupal settings. When used in a production or shared environment, you should update at least the drupal_db_password and use a secure password.

Drupal site installation options

drupal_install_site: true

Set this to false if you don't need to install Drupal (using the drupal_* settings below), but instead copy down a database (e.g. using drush sql-sync).

drupal_domain: "drupaltest.test"
drupal_site_name: "Drupal"
drupal_install_profile: standard
drupal_site_install_extra_args: []
drupal_enable_modules: []
drupal_account_name: admin
drupal_account_pass: admin

Settings for installing a Drupal site if drupal_install_site is true. If you need to pass additional arguments to the drush site-install command, you can pass them in as a list to the drupal_site_install_extra_args variable.

Dependencies

N/A

Example Playbook

See the example playbooks used for Travis CI tests (tests/test.yml and tests/test-deploy.yml) for simple examples. See also: Drupal VM, which uses this role to set up Drupal.

- hosts: webserver
  vars_files:
    - vars/main.yml
  roles:
    - geerlingguy.apache
    - geerlingguy.mysql
    - geerlingguy.php
    - geerlingguy.php-mysql
    - geerlingguy.composer
    - geerlingguy.drush
    - geerlingguy.drupal

Inside vars/main.yml:

drupal_install_site: true
drupal_build_composer_project: true
drupal_composer_install_dir: "/var/www/drupal"
drupal_core_path: "{{ drupal_composer_install_dir }}/web"
drupal_domain: "example.com"

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2014 by Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps.