An Ansible playbook that installs a full LAMP stack and it's dependencies, then installs Wordpress

This is primarily a LAMP installation (for CentOS), which installs Wordpress at the end of it.

Prerequisites:

• SSH and key-based authentication from the ansible machine to the remote server.
• This was tested on a minimal CentOS-7 installation.
  Installation:
• sh start_install.sh

Steps: Running this script completes these steps

• First, the script runs the playbooks within the initial_setup directory.
  • Creates a new user on the server
  • Changes the hostname on the target server
• Next, the script runs the playbook proper (described within roles)
• Then, we install the following in sequence:
  • prerequisites: updates all the existing pacakges, installs policycoreutils-python and then secures SSH access
  • apache: the Apache webserver (and then copy a custom httpd.conf, if required)
  • mariadb:
    • installs mariadb
    • runs mysql_secure_installation
    • TODO: Copy a my.cnf to the remote server, if required
  • php: installs PHP (the default version available with yum)
• And finally, Wordpress is downloaded and installed.

Notes

• I've tried to avoid using wp-cli
• the installation goes only so far as to extract Wordpress and add a wp-config file.
  • As it stands, once the playbook run is complete, access the remote server's IP on the browser and the Wordpress install process can be completed.
• TODO: Complete the addition of the admin user etc. via the Ansible playbook.
• TODO: Add relevant sections for a Debian installation.