Installs Composer, the PHP Dependency Manager, on any Linux or UNIX system.

curl and php (version 5.3+) should be installed and working.

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

composer_path: /usr/local/bin/composer

The path where composer will be installed and available to your system. Should be in your user's $PATH so you can run commands simply with composer instead of the full path.

composer_keep_updated: false

Set this to true to update Composer to the latest release every time the playbook is run.

• geerlingguy.php (Installs PHP).

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - { role: geerlingguy.composer }

After the playbook runs, composer will be placed in /usr/local/bin/composer (this location is configurable), and will be accessible via normal system accounts.

MIT / BSD

This role was created in 2014 by Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps.