Deploy Drupal on Azure VMSS with Ansible

The Ansible playbooks in this repo helps to automatically deploy a testing environment for Drupal sites based on Azure VMSS.

What the playbooks do

The playbooks deploy and configure the following components and services.

• A virtual network with 2 subnets, one for VMSS and another for GlusterFS cluster.
• A 2 nodes GlusterFS cluster.
• An Azure Database for MariaDB.
• A VMSS with a load balancer. The servers in VMSS are configured with the following roles:
  • GlusterFS client with the gluster volume mounted.
  • PHP, Drupal and Nginx.

The diagram below shows how the deployed environment would look like.

How to use it

• Configure your Ansible control node to work with Azure. See this document.
• On the Ansible control node, git clone https://github.com/chunliu/drupal-vmss-ansible.git.
• Update the value of variables in src/group_vars/all.yml.
• Run the playbooks one by one following the sequence with ansible-playbook.

Credits

The playbooks are built on top of the awesome work in the following repos. Thanks to their authors.

• https://github.com/liptanbiswas/drupal-ansible for deploying Drupal on VM with Ansible.
• https://github.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates/tree/master/301-drupal8-vmss-glusterfs-mysql for the bash script of deploying Drupal on VMSS.