{"id":427,"date":"2019-08-18T19:17:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T17:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.petersplanet.nl\/?p=427"},"modified":"2019-11-03T18:29:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T16:29:54","slug":"create-a-wordpress-server-with-ansible-on-aws-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petersplanet.nl\/index.php\/2019\/08\/18\/create-a-wordpress-server-with-ansible-on-aws-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Create a WordPress server with Ansible on AWS – Step 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The idea is to fully script the creation of a WordPress server including the database on CentOS 8 and Amazon Web Services. For this Ansible will be used. I will describe this in several steps\/posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step 1 Create the Linux server<\/strong>
Step 1 is to create the Linux server from a bastion host within AWS. For now we will use CentOS 7 because CentOS 8 is not availabe. Later it will be changed for CentOS 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Update Ansible to the latest version
yum -y update ansible<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Install boto3 because that is the SDK for AWS.
yum -y install python-pip
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install boto3<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

$ ansible --version
ansible 2.8.2<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Set the AWS credentials via environment variables:
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"XXXX\"
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"XXXX\"<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Create the script in a file create-centos7-aws.yml<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CentOS AMI ID can be found for instance here: https:\/\/wiki.centos.org\/Cloud\/AWS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n# create-centos7-aws.yml\n#\n- hosts: localhost\n  connection: local\n  gather_facts: yes\n  tasks:\n  - name: Create CentOS instance on AWS\n    ec2_instance:\n      image_id: ami-6e28b517\n      instance_initiated_shutdown_behavior: stop\n      instance_type: t2.micro\n      key_name: xxxx-keypair-eu-ie\n      name: myinstance\n      region: eu-west-1\n      tags:\n        Environment: test\n      volumes:\n      - device_name: \/dev\/sda1\n        ebs:\n          volume_size: 8\n      vpc_subnet_id: subnet-xxxx\n      wait: yes\n      wait_timeout: 600<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Run the script<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ansible-playbook create-centos7-aws.yml --become-user centos<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
This is all to create an instance on AWS. It takes some time for the script to be finished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The idea is to fully script the creation of a WordPress server including the database on CentOS 8 and Amazon Web Services. For this Ansible will be used. I will describe this in several steps\/posts. Step 1 Create the Linux server Step 1 is to create the Linux server from a bastion host within AWS.…<\/span><\/p>\n
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