Symfony, Ansible and your staging server set up in one hour

[Edit]: I’m writting a book about Ansible, click here if want a free draft.
When you start a new project and you create the Ansible provisioning for it, you will do those tasks:

• Find the right role on Ansible Galaxy and check if there is nothing odd inside.
• Write the role you need to have a final working provisioning
• Write the configuration files (group_vars, hosts, var files)
• Configure your Vagrantfile
• Test and debug everything until it works fine

All of this requires time and Ansible’s knowledge to perform. So I wrote a very opinionated and simple yeoman like tool to automate it. My choices are:

• The tool works only on Mac and Linux
• It is designed to provision only Ubuntu’s servers
• It targets only the last Ubuntu LTS (currently xenial)

With very one command line, you get what you want:

What is there inside ?

• A Vagrantfile to launch and configure your local VM
• An Ansible playbook to provision the local VM and the prod. It includes:
  • Nginx
  • PHP
  • Composer
  • A database role (Mysql, Postgresql or Mongodb)
  • An Ansible playbook which is easy to evolve to satisfy your project specifications
  • The Capifony configuration to deploy the code

The steps are pretty straightforward and explained on the documentation.

If you have any question, feel free to ping me on Twitter and/or create an issue on Github. All feedbacks are very welcome =).

If you want to know more about how to build great Ansible playbook, this article may give you some ideas.