Ansible playbook - Ghost

This project contains an Ansible playbook used for provisioning an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server with the following characteristics:

• NGINX as the web server
• PostgreSQL as the DB engine.
• Mailgun as the email service provider.
• Upstart service for keeping the blog up and running.
• HTTPS/SSL configuration ready to go.

Usage

These instructions will get you a deployable Ansible playbook that you can easily use for provisioning any Ubuntu server.

Prerequisites & Assumptions

You must have Ansible installed in your computer as well as an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server with ssh public authentication enabled on it. You can easily create a public virtual server on any of the following services:

• Amazon Web Services
• Digital Ocean
• Rackspace

If you don't want to spend any cent by using this playbook, you can test it using a virtual machine. We've used a Vagrant for the testing and development of this playbook, this is how our Vagrantfile looks like:

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty64"
  config.vm.network "public_network"
  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
    vb.memory = "1024"
  end
end

You can get yours by simply running vagrant up after creating you Vagrantfile:

How to use

1. Set up your inventory by creating a file name inventory (without any extension) in the root of the project. i.e:

[default]
10.15.42.4
10.15.42.3
...

2. Make the play file an executable one:

chmod +x play

3. Set up the variables
4. Run:

./play

SSL/HTTPS support

Please refer to the vars section for more information.

Third party libraries/roles

• nodesource.node - NodeJS installation role

Not Exactly What You Want?

This is what we use internally. It might not be what you want.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details

What's next for the project?

• Multiple DB engines support:

  • MySQL
  • sqlite3

• Let's encrypt integration for valid SSL certificates generation.