Ansible -> EC2 -> Wordpress

Host WordPress in your AWS Account. Create a VPC with AWS CloudFormation and install WordPress with Ansible.

• Description
• Directions for 'us-east-1'
• Architecture
• Troubleshooting
• AMI IDs for other regions

Description

Creates a VPC to to host a Wordpress website. Launches t2.small instances. Installs the latest version of Wordpress with an Ansible playbook. Assigns an Elastic IP to the Wordpress EC2 instance.

Directions

In the region 'us-east-1':

1. Create a VPC with the CloudFormation template wordpress-vpc-cloudformation.json
2. ssh to the Ansible Host ssh -i your_key.pem ec2-user@...
3. Copy your .pem file to the Ansible host ~/.ssh/your_key.pem
4. Change your .pem file copy to be read only: chmod 400 ~/.ssh/your_key.pem
5. cd ansible-ec2-wordpress
6. Run the playbook: ansible-playbook --private-key="~/.ssh/your_key.pem" site.yml
7. Done! Visit the WordPress host in your web browser

Architecture

Troubleshooting

1. Verify Ansible installed /var/log/cloud-init-output.log
2. ssh to the wordpress host with ssh -i your_key.pem ubuntu@...
3. Verify your IAM permissions to create VPC and EC2 resources

AMI IDs for other regions

1. Ubuntu 14.04 AMI IDs here: https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/locator/ec2/
2. Amazon AMI IDs here: https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/