Drupal+Nginx+PHP-FPM Deployment

Requires Ansible 1.6 or newer
Expects Ubuntu 14.04 or CentOS/RedHat 6.5 hosts

These playbooks (found in samples_yml) deploy a simple all-in-one configuration of the popular Drupal software platform and CMS, frontend by the Nginx web server and the PHP-FPM process manager. To use copy and modify sample_yml/site.example.yml or sample_yml/site.big-example.yml to ./site.yml in the root directory.

At this time the VM will come up with the IP of 192.168.0.8. Our road map will parameterize this and other values for greater flexibility.

Then run the playbook, like this:

ansible-playbook -i hosts site.yml

If you want to use vagrant you can try our sample Vagrantfile just by installing vagrant and running:

vagrant up.

The playbooks will configure MySQL, Drupal, Nginx, and PHP-FPM. When the run is complete, you can access server (http://localhost:8080 on vagrant) to begin the Drupal configuration.

TODO

Here are some ideas for ways that these playbooks could be extended:

Use our own nginx.conf based on (epoll, multi_accept, file_cache):
enable apcu for the cli (to prevent slowdowns on cron and drush jobs, we are only doing it for fpm on ubuntu)
add xhprof to the php role
test debian support
handle Drupal upgrades automatically.

We would love to see contributions and improvements, so please fork this repository on GitHub and send us your changes via pull requests.

Defined Roles

syslog

The syslog module disables the watchdog (dblog) module and enables the syslog module for each of your sites. It depends on your sites already being installed. It will also configure syslog (/etc/rsyslog.conf) to log all drupal events to /var/log/drupal.log

mailer

A role to allow the server to send emails. It uses postfix and the default distribution configuration.

solr

A role to run solr using the provided jetty example, which is the recommended method instead of using tomcat or full jetty.