DevOps for VMware Administrators

Chapter 11. Systems Management Tasks with Ansible

This chapter focuses on using Ansible for multitier deployments. Specifically, the chapter presents an example of how to deploy a LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) stack with Ansible.

Topics covered in this chapter include the following:

• Web server deployment

• The application tier

• The database tier

• Role structure optimization

• VMware resource management

Web Server Deployment

There is not much work to be done for our web role because we did a good job of completing it in Chapter 10. To keep our code better organized, though, we will move the folder containing our web role to /etc/ansible/roles.

Note

Going forward, we will be placing all of our Ansible roles in the /etc/ansible/roles directory ...