Deploying a Laravel Project on an Ubuntu 20.04 Instance

Ansible playbook to deploy a Laravel project on an Ubuntu 20.04 instance.

This playbook is tested on DigitalOcean Ubuntu 20.04 Droplet

Requirements

• Ansible Control Node - DigitalOcean Ubuntu 20.04 Droplet with Ansible installed
• Managed Node - DigitalOcean Ubuntu Droplet

Prerequisite

• Ansible installed on the control node
• Ansible community mysql module be installed on the control node
• Hash password for user
• Update inventory with managed node IP
• Variables are declared under vars/default.yml

What userOnboarding.yaml does

• Creates New User with passwordless sudo rights
• Disables Password Login
• Copies Control node SSH key to the new user
• Sets timezone and host name of managed node

What setup.yaml does

• Updates and Upgrade the server
• Installs LAMP and its dependecies
• Installs
  • ca-certificates
  • wget
  • curl
  • git
  • ufw
  • gnupg2
  • software-properties-common
• Install Composer and its dependencies
• Configure Firewall - UFW
• Clone repository
• Configure Apache vHosts
• Create MySQL user and database
• Add managed node IP to hosts file
• Migrate database
• Setup SSL with letsencrypt

USE

• Onboard new user and setup managed node for deployemt with userOnboarding.yaml
• Deploy laravel project with setup.yaml