Ansible role: Laravel

This role installs Laravel using the official Composer installer (composer create-project laravel/laravel) and places it in the desired directory.

Requirements

This role depends on the following Ansible roles to be applied beforehand:

• A PHP role (e.g., geerlingguy.php) – to install and configure PHP
• A web server role (e.g., nginx, apache) – to serve the Laravel application
• A Composer role (e.g., geerlingguy.composer) – to install PHP dependencies

Role Variables

List of variables in ansible-role-laravel:

---
laravel_source: cli # cli or source (URL)
laravel_version: "12.0.8"
laravel_install_path: /var/www/laravel
laravel_owner: www-data
laravel_group: www-data

laravel_php_executable: /usr/bin/php8.4
laravel_composer_executable: /usr/local/bin/composer

Dependencies

This role depends on the following Ansible roles:

• php_installer: Installs and configures PHP
• composer_installer: Installs Composer

⚠️ Make sure both php_installer and composer_installer roles are available and properly configured before using this role.

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - geerlingguy.php
    - geerlingguy.composer
    - devetek.laravel

License

GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

Author Information

Nedya Prakasa. Role created for dPanel.