January 17, 2017 Maxime Thoonsen 2 min read

[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.