lampsible 1.1.1

Deploy and set up LAMP stacks with Ansible

Lampsible

About

Lampsible - LAMP stacks with Ansible and a super simple CLI. This tool can automate anything from a production ready WordPress site on your VPS to a custom Apache setup on a virtual machine in your local network. .

Requirements

• Local: Unix system with Python 3.8 or newer. Tested on Ubuntu and Gentoo Linux. Might work on macOS, but I haven't tested that. Won't work on Windows.
• Remote: Ubuntu 20 or newer. Might work on older versions, but I doubt it. Support for other distros is planned in a future version.

Installing

Install with Pip: python3 -m pip install lampsible

Alternatively, install from wheel file...: python3 -m pip install /path/to/local/lampsible-SOME_VERSION-py3-none-any.whl

... or from source:

git clone https://github.com/saint-hilaire/lampsible
cd lampsible
python3 -m pip install .

Sample usage

Lampsible is designed to be very simple to use. If you forget some important parameter, Lampsible will prompt you for it, or pick some sensible defaults.

Install Apache on your server:

lampsible [e-mail] apache

Install a production ready WordPress site:

lampsible [e-mail] wordpress \
    --ssl-certbot \
    --email-for-ssl [e-mail]

Install a production ready Joomla site:

lampsible [e-mail] joomla \
    --ssl-certbot \
    --email-for-ssl [e-mail]

Install a Laravel app on a test server:

lampsible [e-mail] laravel \
    --ssl-certbot \
    --test-cert \
    --apache-server-admin [e-mail] \
    --app-name cool-laravel-app \
    --app-build-path /path/to/your/local/cool-laravel-app-0.7rc.tar.gz \
    --laravel-artisan-commands key:generate,migrate

Set up a LAMP stack with various custom configuration and a self signed SSL certificate on some local VM:

lampsible someuser@192.168.123.123 lamp-stack \
    --ask-remote-sudo \
    --ssl-selfsigned \
    --database-username dbuser \
    --database-name testdb \
    --php-version 8.1 \
    --apache-vhost-name some-legacy-app \
    --apache-document-root /var/www/html/some-legacy-app/some-dir/public \
    --php-extensions mysql,xml,mbstring,xdebug,gd

Run lampsible --help for a full list of options.

Note about PHP versions

Different versions of Ubuntu natively support different versions of PHP. You can specify the PHP version to install on the remote server by passing the --php-version flag. The default value for this parameter is currently: 8.3

If you try to install an unsupported PHP version on your remote server, Lampsible will fail, because on the remote server, APT will fail to find the required packages. Therefore, you need to pass the correct value to the --php-version flag. Based on your Ubuntu version, these currently are:

• Ubuntu 24: PHP 8.3 (default)
• Ubuntu 23: PHP 8.2 (not tested)
• Ubuntu 22: PHP 8.1
• Ubuntu 20: PHP 7.4

A future version of Lampsible will improve this, so you won't have to worry about Ubuntu and PHP versions. However, for now, you do have to be mindful of the Ubuntu version, and specify the correct PHP version.

Of course, you can also add support for other PHP versions on your remote server by manually configuring the APT repository.

It's also worth noting that Joomla 5 requires PHP 8.1 or newer. Similar requirements may apply for other CMS/frameworks like Wordpress, Laravel, etc.

Contributing

Please do! I'd be more than happy to see Issues, Pull Requests and any other kind of feedback ;-)