Ansible Playbooks

Provides some common roles and playbooks suitable for web development.

The Playbooks

There are 3 provided playbooks, these include:

1. Standard
2. Vagrant
3. Web
4. Database

Each of these will run roles conditionally based upon some set variables.

Standard

standard.yml

Installs some logical default applications including git, zsh, sqlite, vim, curl, wget.

Vagrant

vagrant.yml

A playbook specifically designed to be used with https://github.com/simoncoulton/vagrant for local development.

Web

web.yml

This playbook is responsible for provisioning all webservers.

Database

database.yml

This playbook is responsible for provisioning all database servers.

The Roles

The following roles are available:

• apache
• apt
• common (installs commonly used packages)
• git
• mysql
• nginx
• php
• postgresql
• python
• sqlite
• uwsgi
• zsh

There are also some development specific playbooks including:

• mysql-dev
• vagrant

Each role is configured via logical default values, which can be overriden if required. See each roles defaults/main.yml file for more information.

Executing the playbooks

Each playbook can be executed via ./play [inventory] [playbook], for example ./play production web.