WordPress AWS CI/CD Deployment.
Designer
Hamza ELGADI
Tools
AWS , Jenkins , Ansible,
Infrastructure Design , Terraform , DevSecOps
Date
July, 2025
Github
https://github.com/HamzaElgadi/secure-wordpress-aws-deploy
This project automates the deployment of a secure and scalable WordPress website using: – ✅ Terraform (for AWS infrastructure provisioning) – ✅ Ansible (for server configuration) – ✅ Jenkins / GitHub Actions (for CI/CD automation) – ✅ EC2, RDS, S3, and CloudFront: https://github.com/HamzaElgadi/secure-wordpress-aws-deploy
Breaf & idea.
This project aims to solve a common pain for entrepreneurs, agencies, and growing startups: deploying and maintaining a WordPress website securely and efficiently in the cloud — without manual intervention or guesswork.
Using modern DevOps tools, this solution automates the full lifecycle of a WordPress deployment, ensuring scalability, speed, and security. It eliminates the need for manual server setup or risky shared hosting environments.
By combining Terraform for AWS infrastructure provisioning, Ansible for server configuration, and Jenkins/GitHub Actions for CI/CD, this project allows clients to:
🚀 Launch their WordPress site with one command
🔒 Ensure security best practices are applied from the start
🧩 Scale easily using AWS services like EC2, RDS, S3, and CloudFront
🔁 Update and redeploy changes automatically via a CI/CD pipeline
This is perfect for clients who:
Want a professional-grade WordPress site hosted on AWS
Need a fast deployment process with zero downtime
Care about long-term maintainability, backups, and cloud-native performance
Result.
By the end of this project, we delivered a production-ready WordPress deployment system that can be reused, scaled, and maintained with minimal manual effort. Here’s what was achieved:
✅ 100% Infrastructure-as-Code: Entire AWS environment (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront) is fully automated with Terraform, enabling rapid, repeatable deployments.
🔄 CI/CD Pipeline in Place: New changes to the website trigger automatic builds and deployments via Jenkins or GitHub Actions — reducing human error and speeding up updates.
🔐 Security & Reliability Built-in: Ansible applies consistent, secure server configurations (LAMP stack, firewall, permissions), ensuring best practices.
📈 Improved Time-to-Launch: From server provisioning to WordPress installation, the whole process now takes just a few minutes.
☁️ Cloud-Optimized WordPress: Hosting on AWS provides greater performance, availability, and scalability compared to traditional shared hosting.
💼 Client-Ready System: The setup is clean, well-documented, and easy for non-technical founders or teams to use — even without deep DevOps knowledge.