WordPress installation tasks

Now that we have the roles that prepare our target Vagrant box completed, we can proceed with the actual WordPress installation; this will be split into a few different parts, starting with downloading wp_cli and setting up the database.

Before we progress, we should create the role:

$ ansible-galaxy init roles/wordpress

WordPress CLI installation

WordPress CLI (WP-CLI) is a command-line tool used to administer your WordPress installation; we will be using it throughout the role, so the first thing our role should do is download it. To do this, we need to download the following variables in roles/wordpress/defaults/main.yml:

wp_cli:
  download: "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar"
  path: "/usr/local/bin/wp"

As you probably have gathered from the two variables, we are going to be downloading the file from wp_cli.download and copying it to wp_cli.path. The task in roles/wordpress/tasks/main.yml to do this looks like the following...