Installing web and database servers on Debian Bullseye with Ansible playbooks

~ tmolnar0831

Installing web servers, database services and such tools are tedious task especially when we have to repeat it over and over again, for example in a test environment.

Here are some useful playbooks that we can use to simplify the process.

These are just simple and portable playbooks. If we want to follow the industry standards, it is easy to create Ansible roles from this code.

Install Nginx

---
- name: Install Nginx
  hosts: all
  become: yes

  tasks:
    - name: Install Nginx
      apt:
        name: nginx
        state: present

    - name: Start Nginx service
      service:
        name: nginx
        state: started

Install MySQL

---
- name: Install MySQL
  hosts: all
  become: yes

  tasks:
    - name: Install MySQL
      apt:
        name:
          - mysql-server
          - mysql-client
        state: present

    - name: Start MySQL service
      service:
        name: mysql
        state: started

Install Apache

---
- name: Install Apache
  hosts: all
  become: yes

  tasks:
    - name: Install Apache
      apt:
        name:
          - apache2
          - apache2-utils
        state: present

    - name: Start Apache service
      service:
        name: apache2
        state: started

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My name is Tom, and I’m the founder and main contributor to Tom's IT Cafe. I’m a technology enthusiast and IT professional with over two decades of experience in the industry.

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