Installing PHP using Ansible Playbook

PHP is a server side scripting language, and an integral asset for making dynamic and intelligent Web pages. PHP is a generally utilized, free, and proficient option in contrast to contenders, for example, Microsoft’s ASP. PHP 7 is the most recent stable delivery.

In this post, We will automate the PHP installation using Ansible Playbook on ubuntu 18.04 LTS, We believe, You have already installed Ansible if not you need to click on given link to install Ansible on ubuntu server. 

https://www.techbeginner.in/2019/12/how-to-install-ansible-on-ubuntu.html

Step 1: Configure Ansible 

By default ansible host configuration file is /etc/ansible/hosts Here you need to add the Apache web server details like this, Use the following step for the same, In my case i have 1 apache server.

• Group Name  – WebServer
• IP Address     – 10.2.0.5
• Username      – example
• Password       – XXXXXXXXXX

You need to add your server in ansible host file, Syntax is given below, You need to open the /etc/ansible/hosts file with nano or vim text editor.

sudo vim /etc/ansible/hosts

and add the web server entry like this.

[webserver]
10.2.0.5 ansible_connection=ssh ansible_ssh_user=example ansible_ssh_pass=xxxxxxx

Save and exit from the vim editor and execute the follwing command to test node connectivity.

ansible all -m ping

Step 2: Creating PHO Anisble Playbook

You need to create phpplaybook.yml by using the given command.

sudo vim phpplaybook.yml

Paste the given code to automate the PHP7.4 with modules.

- hosts: webserver
  become: yes
  tasks:
    - name: Installation install software-properties-common
      apt: name=software-properties-common

    - name: "Repo PHP 7.4"
      apt_repository:
        repo="ppa:ondrej/php"
   
    - name: "Updating the repo"
      apt: update_cache=yes

    - name: Installation PHP 7.4
      apt: name=php7.4 state=present

    - name: install lamp stack
      apt:
        pkg:
          - php7.4-mysql
          - php7.4-curl
          - php7.4-json
          - php7.4-cgi
          - php7.4-xsl
          - php7.4-cgi
          - php7.4-gd
          - php7.4-mbstring
          - php7.4-zip
          - php7.4-xmlrpc
          - php7.4-soap
          - php7.4-intl
          - libapache2-mod-php
        state: present
        update_cache: yes 

Save and exit from the vim text editor and execute the given command for the same.

ansible-playbook phpplaybook.yml

You should receive a success message following the installation of PHP with the ansible playbook.

To check PHP version

php -v

To check Installed PHP modules

php -m

Conclusion

We have successfully installed PHP using Ansible playbook on ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Kindly report in case you are facing defeculties with follwing details.

• OS
• Ansible version
• Package name
• Logs – Error / Warning / failed

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