---
title: "Installing Wordpress with CloudInit"
description: "Installing Wordpress with CloudInit"
date: 2013-11-01
tags: ["cloud-init","user-data","wordpress"]
url: https://www.exoscale.com/blog/hello-world/
---
# Installing Wordpress with CloudInit

> [!NOTE]
> This article dating from 2013 is not valid anymore. The
> _exoscale-wordpress_ repository doesn't work on Puppet 5.x and Precise
> Pangolin (Ubuntu 12.04) was EOL'd on April 28, 2017.


Each programming language has its "Hello World" tutorial. In the cloud
provider business, the benchmarking is often done on a simple application deployment.
[Wordpress](https://wordpress.org/) is such an application used to guide users as a first hands on experience.
We have created our own Wordpress deployment example, but done so in a slightly more
disruptive way.

Whereas traditional Virtual Private Servers tutorials lists pages of
scripts and console windows, ours is **just 15 lines**.
The trick is to let Puppet, a configuration management tool, do the job. This example will not
deploy a clone of a Wordpress installation, but a fresh and latest copy of the famous blogging engine.


## Principles:

This cookbook will leverage userdata extensibility of our Apache CloudStack powered Open Cloud offering and the features of cloud-init to
bootstrap a **fully operational Wordpress install which IS NOT a clone**.

* Userdata will be filled with a script
* Script will be called on first boot by cloud-init
* A puppet repository will be pulled on the instance
* The script will launch Puppet and apply the manifest and eventually after PHP, Nginx and MySQL installation pull a fresh copy of Wordpress and install it.

Keep it mind that it is possible to go much further in automation deployment.

Anyway, here is the usage guide from the [README section of the project on Github](https://github.com/exoscale/exoscale-wordpress/) or see for yourself with this simple article:


## Usage guide:

### Start an instance

Launch a new Ubuntu 12.04 LTS instance with the service offering you wish. Insert it in a security group or with firewall rules which enable port 80/http.

### User Data with Cloud-init

In the User Data tab, input the script below:

    #!/bin/sh
    set -e -x

    apt-get --yes --quiet update
    apt-get --yes --quiet install git puppet-common

    #
    # Fetch puppet configuration from public git repository.
    #

    mv /etc/puppet /etc/puppet.orig
    git clone https://github.com/exoscale/exoscale-wordpress.git /etc/puppet

    #
    # Run puppet.
    #

    puppet apply /etc/puppet/manifests/init.pp

### Start using your fresh  Wordpress

Point your browser to your instance public IP address and you should be asked for an admin email and password.