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Ansible NGINX Role
This role installs NGINX Open Source, NGINX Plus, or the NGINX Amplify agent on your target host.
Note: This role is still in active development. There may be unidentified issues and the role variables may change as development continues.
Deprecation Warnings:
With the advent of Ansible collections and the release of the NGINX Core Ansible collection, the decision has been made to split this role into three smaller roles and reduce the overhead of this role:
- The NGINX Ansible role will keep working as is and be used to install and setup NGINX.
- The NGINX configuration functionalities included in this role have been removed as of release 0.19.0. There now is a separate role to manage and create NGINX configurations available here. Any new issues or PRs related to configuring NGINX should be submitted in the new NGINX configuration Ansible role repository. New issues or PRs related to configuring NGINX submitted in this repository will not be worked on. This disclaimer will be removed in a future release.
- The NGINX Unit functionalities included in this role have been removed as of release 0.18.0. There now is a separate role to install NGINX Unit available here. Any new issues or PRs related to NGINX Unit should be submitted in the new NGINX Unit Ansible role repository. New issues or PRs related to NGINX Unit submitted in this repository will not be worked on. This disclaimer will be removed in a future release.
Requirements
Ansible
- This role is developed and tested with maintained versions of Ansible base (bigger than
2.10
) and Ansible (bigger than2.9.10
). - When using Ansible base, you will also need to install the following collections:
Note: You can alternatively install the Ansible community distribution (what is known as the "old" Ansible) if you don't want to manage individual collections.--- collections: - name: community.general version: 2.3.0 - name: ansible.posix version: 1.2.0
- Instructions on how to install Ansible can be found in the Ansible website.
Jinja2
- This role uses Jinja2 templates. Ansible base installs Jinja2 by default, but depending on your install and/or upgrade path, you might be running an outdated version of Jinja2. The minimum version of Jinja2 required for the role to properly function is
2.11
. - Instructions on how to install Jinja2 can be found in the Jinja2 website.
Molecule
- Molecule is used to test the various functionalities of the role. The recommended version of Molecule to test this role is
3.3
. - Instructions on how to install Molecule can be found in the Molecule website.
Installation
Ansible Galaxy
Use ansible-galaxy install nginxinc.nginx
to install the latest stable release of the role on your system.
Git
Use git clone https://github.com/nginxinc/ansible-role-nginx.git
to pull the latest edge commit of the role from GitHub.
Platforms
The NGINX Ansible role supports all platforms supported by NGINX Open Source, NGINX Plus, and the NGINX Amplify agent:
NGINX Open Source
Alpine:
- 3.10
- 3.11
- 3.12
- 3.13
CentOS:
- 7.4+
- 8
Debian:
- buster
Red Hat:
- 7.4+
- 8
SUSE/SLES:
- 12
- 15
Ubuntu:
- xenial
- bionic
- focal
- groovy
NGINX Plus
Alpine:
- 3.10
- 3.11
- 3.12
Amazon Linux:
- 2018.03
Amazon Linux 2:
- any
CentOS:
- 7.4+
- 8
Debian:
- buster
FreeBSD:
- 11.2+
- 12.1+
Oracle Linux:
- 7.4+
Red Hat:
- 7.4+
- 8
SUSE/SLES:
- 12
- 15
Ubuntu:
- xenial
- bionic
- focal
- groovy
NGINX Amplify Agent
Amazon Linux:
- 2017.09
CentOS:
- 7
Debian:
- jessie
- stretch
Red Hat:
- 7
Ubuntu:
- xenial
- bionic
- focal
Note: You can also use this role to compile NGINX Open Source from source, install NGINX Open Source on compatible yet unsupported platforms, or install NGINX Open Source on BSD systems at your own risk.
Role Variables
This role has multiple variables. The descriptions and defaults for all these variables can be found in the defaults/main/
folder in the following files:
Name | Description |
---|---|
main.yml |
NGINX installation variables |
amplify.yml |
NGINX Amplify agent installation variables |
linux.yml |
Linux installation variables |
bsd.yml |
BSD installation variables |
Similarly, descriptions and defaults for preset variables can be found in the vars/
folder in the following files:
Name | Description |
---|---|
main.yml |
List of supported NGINX platforms and modules |
Example Playbooks
Working functional playbook examples can be found in the molecule/
folder in the following files:
Name | Description |
---|---|
default/converge.yml |
Install a specific version of NGINX and set up logrotate |
module/converge.yml |
Install various NGINX supported modules |
plus/converge.yml |
Install NGINX Plus and various NGINX Plus supported modules |
source/converge.yml |
Install NGINX from source |
Do note that if you install this repository via Ansible Galaxy, you will have to replace the role variable in the sample playbooks from ansible-role-nginx
to nginxinc.nginx
.
Other NGINX Ansible Collections and Roles
You can find the Ansible NGINX Core collection of roles to install and configure NGINX Open Source, NGINX Plus, and NGINX App Protect here.
You can find the Ansible NGINX configuration role to configure NGINX here.
You can find the Ansible NGINX App Protect role to install and configure NGINX App Protect here.
You can find the Ansible NGINX Controller collection of roles to install and configure NGINX Controller here.
You can find the Ansible NGINX Unit role to install NGINX Unit here.
License
Author Information
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