A sample Ansible playbook to deploy changes to a Laravel application

playbook.yml

- hosts: roelofjanelsinga.com # You can also specify an IP address
  vars_files:
    - secrets.yml # Contains the github_user and github_token variable
  vars: # Define new variables
    github_repo_url: https://{{github_user}}:{{github_token}}@github.com/roelofjan-elsinga/portfolio.git
    working_directory: /path/to/app
  tasks:
    - name: "Pull changes from GitHub"
      git:
        repo: "{{github_repo_url}}", # This is how we can make this step reusable across projects
        dest: "{{working_directory}}"
        version: master # Branch to pull
        accept_hostkey: yes
      register: repo # Store the result of this task in a variable
      
    - name: "Install Composer dependencies"
      script: composer install --no-scripts --no-dev
      when: repo.changed # Only run this step if we actually pulled new changes from GitHub
    
    - name: "Cache the configuration"
      script: "php artisan config:cache"
      when: repo.changed # Only run if we pulled changes
      
    - name: "Clear the view cache"
      script: "php artisan view:clear"
      when: repo.changed # Only run if we pulled changes
      
    - name: "Run the migrations"
      script: "php artisan migrate --force"
      when: repo.changed # Only run if we pulled changes