ansible-role-nginx/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

0.17.0 (September 20, 2020)

BREAKING CHANGES:

• The process to install modules has changed. You will now have to use a list variable, nginx_modules, instead of manually setting the modules you want to install to true or false. This change will also simplify adding future supported modules to this role. You can find a list of supported modules for NGINX and NGINX Plus in vars/main.yml.
• Modules can no longer be added to your NGINX config using this role. Please use the nginx_config role instead.
• Changed nginx_configure default value from true to false to further promote the adoption of the NGINX config role.

FEATURES:

• A new variable has been introduced:
  • nginx_setup_license -- Determine whether you want to use this role to upload your NGINX license to your target host.
• The role will now fail automatically if you try to deploy NGINX from an official repository in an unsupported distribution. You can find a list of supported distributions for NGINX and NGINX Plus in vars/main.yml
• Three new tags have been introduced -- nginx_setup_license, nginx_install and nginx_check_support.
• Add Alpine 3.12 to the list of supported platforms.
• Remove Alpine 3.8 from the list of supported platforms.
• Add NGINX Plus tests to TravisCI

ENHANCEMENTS:

• Added handlers to check for NGINX syntax validity and fail if any errors are detected.
• Switch to using ansible_facts wherever possible.
• Major backend refactoring to reduce the number of files and tasks.
• You can now specify an nginx_repository for NGINX Plus too.
• Moved "constant" variables to vars/main.yml.
• Included deprecation warnings in task names and files.
• Improved tasks naming conventions.
• Update Ansible to 2.9.13 and Ansible Lint to 4.3.5.

BUG FIXES:

• NGINX Plus repository data for RHEL based distros is now appropriately set.
• Building NGINX from source should now work as expected in CentOS/RHEL 6 systems running Python 2.6 or earlier versions of 2.7.

0.16.0 (August 28, 2020)

BREAKING CHANGES:

• The Debian and Ubuntu repositories have slightly changed. You may run into some duplication issues when running the role on a preexisting target that already has had NGINX installed using the role. To fix this, manually remove the old repository source.

ENHANCEMENTS:

• Update Ansible to 2.9.12 and Ansible Lint to 4.3.2.
• Explicitly define mode in relevant tasks.
• Explicitly define the nginx apt_repository filename in Debian based distros.

FEATURES:

• TravisCI now always uses the latest version of Docker.

BUG FIXES:

• Building OpenSSL from source should now work properly in CentOS 8.

0.15.0 (August 20, 2020)

DEPRECATION WARNING:

With the advent of Ansible collections and to reduce the overhead of this role, the decision has been made to split this role into three smaller roles:

• The NGINX Ansible role will keep working as is and be used to install and setup NGINX.
• 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 Config repository. New issues or PRs related to configuring NGINX submitted in this repository will not be worked on. The NGINX configuration functionalities included in this role will be removed in an upcoming release.
• NGINX Unit now has a separate role available here. Any new issues or PRs related to NGINX Unit should be submitted in the new NGINX Unit repository. New issues or PRs related to NGINX Unit submitted in this repository will not be worked on. The NGINX Unit functionalities included in this role will be removed in an upcoming release.

BREAKING CHANGES:

• The Debian and Ubuntu repositories have slightly changed. You may run into some duplication issues when running the role on a preexisting target that already has had NGINX installed using the role. To fix this, manually remove the old repository source.

• If you use custom_options you will now need to manually end each directive with a semicolon.

• The status directive is no longer supported in NGINX Plus, and the stub_status directive has been reworked into a template.

• The listen directive structure in the stream template has been updated to the listen directive structure found in the http template. You can now specify multiple listen directives in the same server block as well as include any extra listen options you might need.

  Old configuration example

  listen_address: localhost
  listen_port: 80
  udp_enable: false
  

  New configuration example

  listen:
    listen_localhost:
      ip: 0.0.0.0  # Wrap in square brackets for IPv6 addresses
      port: 80
      ssl: false
      opts: []  # Listen opts like udp which will be added (ssl is automatically added if you specify 'ssl:').
  

  The one major change is that instead of using udp_enable: true you will now need to use opts: [udp] if you wish to enable udp.

FEATURES:

• Add support to configure logrotate.
• Add support for Ubuntu Focal.
• Add support to configure SELinux.
• Two new variables have been introduced -- nginx_install and nginx_configure -- to let you choose whether you want to install NGINX, configure NGINX, or both.

ENHANCEMENTS:

• Molecule tests using Testinfra have been migrated to use Ansible instead.
• The role now uses include_tasks instead of import_tasks when possible to speed up the role's execution time.
• Improve configuration cleanup capabilities. You can now remove all *.conf files in a given directory, or specify a list of files you wish to delete.
• Improve configuration templating capabilities:
  • Add support for unix upstreams.
  • Add PID templating option.
  • Add support for down parameter in upstreams.
  • Add option for custom error pages.
  • Add SSL support to stream contexts.

BUG FIXES:

• nginx_debug_output would sometimes fail if NGINX had not been automatically started by the system upon installation.
• If http_demo_conf was undefined the web server template interpolation would fail.

0.14.0 (April 22, 2020)

This is a relatively minor release, but it includes a potential breaking change (hence the version bump). The one major new feature is the ability to install/build NGINX Open Source from source.

BREAKING CHANGES:

• The NGINX Controller agent can no longer be installed using this role. Please use the Ansible collection linked in the README.

FEATURES:

• Install/build NGINX from source options now available.
• Implement NGINX http sub module templating.
• NGINX config is now correctly validated each run.
• SSL Private Key data is hidden when running the role with the --diff flag.

BUG FIXES:

• The role should no longer sporadically cause apt update to fail in amd64 systems when installing NGINX from an official repository.
• Modules should now correctly install when using a specific NGINX Plus version.

0.13.0 (December 13, 2019)

BREAKING CHANGES:

• The new listen templating options are not backwards with the previous listen templating options. Check the README or molecule/template_module/playbook.yml for examples on how to use the new listen template.
• BSD and Linux NGINX installation tasks have undergone some major changes. As such, you may have to update your playbooks accordingly.

FEATURES:

• Improve NGINX http templating:
  • Multiple server support in HTTP contexts.
  • Header support.
  • OCSP stapling.
  • Improved proxy settings.
  • Logging settings.
  • Improved SSL settings.
  • Improved authentication settings.
  • Max body size support.
  • Improved listen templating.
• Switch to Molecule for testing.
• Add support for Debian Buster.
• Support for specifying which version of NGINX to install.
• Split default variables into multiple functional files.
• Improve support for Alpine distributions.
• Support for updating or removing NGINX from your system.
• Implemented tags to support running specific tasks instead of the whole role.

BUG FIXES:

• Module installation when using NGINX Plus has been fixed.
• Websockets templating has been reenabled after being accidentally deleted.
• When deleting your NGINX Plus license from the system, the NGINX Plus repository will also be deleted to prevent issues further down the line if you run a repository update since there will not be a license anymore to authenticate into the NGINX Plus repository.

0.12.0 (May 22, 2019)

FEATURES:

• Improve NGINX http templating - following parameters are now supported:
  • Websockets.
  • Basic authentication.
  • Proxy cache.
  • Proxy redirect.
  • Proxy timeouts.
  • SSL.
  • Root (in server context).
  • Add basic NGINX stream templating.
  • Add support for RHEL 8 and Alpine Linux.

BUG FIXES:

• Fix module installation tasks.

0.11.0 (Januray 14, 2019)

FEATURES:

• Allow setting a custom apt and rpm signing key host.
• Add support for enabling an http to https redirects.
• Add ansible_managed to templates.
• Rename html_app_name to web_server_name.
• Rename load_balancer block to reverse_proxy.
• Allow setting the listen port when using SSL.
• Improve SSL defaults.
• Allow setting http or https server locations in proxy_pass.

BUG FIXES:

• Ignore undefined values for autoindex and health check.
• Clarify that the redirect variable refers to a http to https redirect.

0.10.1 (November 26, 2018)

BUG FIXES:

• Fix HTML template to use correct variable name.

0.10.0 (November 26, 2018)

FEATURES:

• Improve templating support for health checks, multiple location blocks, and auto indexing.

BUG FIXES:

• Fetching the NGINX signing key is now more reliable.
• Fixed HTML templating.

0.9.0 (October 18, 2018)

FEATURES:

• Refactor NGINX templating and file uploading.
• Add ability to upload and template HTML files.
• Add ability to upload SSL keys and certificates.

0.8.0 (September 17, 2018)

FEATURES:

• Add ability to install NGINX Plus Controller agent.
• Refactor installation of NGINX Amplify agent.
• Rename variables to be prefixed with nginx_.

BUG FIXES:

• Correct spelling of name in tasks/prerequisites/setup-debian.yml.

0.7.1 (August 21, 2018)

FEATURES:

• Add enabled parameter to NGINX and NGINX Unit handlers.

0.7.0 (August 4, 2018)

FEATURES:

• Add Amazon Linux 2 support for NGINX Plus.
• Add ability to delete NGINX Plus license after installation.

BUG FIXES:

• GeoIP module can now be properly installed.
• Module installation will no longer fail if only one module is specified.

0.6.0 (July 19, 2018)

FEATURES:

• Improve NGINX Unit related documentation.
• Add FreeBSD and Amazon Linux 2 support for NGINX Unit.
• Allow users to install NGINX Unit without having to also install NGINX.

0.5.0 (June 28, 2018)

FEATURES:

• Add support for NGINX Unit.

0.4.0 (May 25, 2018)

FEATURES:

• Implement support for FreeBSD.
• Allow users to select the default NGINX repository.

0.3.0 (April 19, 2018)

FEATURES:

• Improve Travis CI testing strategy.

BUG FIXES:

• Fix templating and push tasks.

0.2.0 (April 12, 2018)

FEATURES:

• Add support for all first party NGINX modules.

BUG FIXES:

• Role should now work correctly in distros with old versions of Python.
• Rest API configuration will now only be created when rest_api_enable is set to true (an empty file would be created in previous versions if rest_api_enable was set to false).
• Uploading/dynamically generating files should now result in the files being uploaded/created to/in the correct directory.

0.1.0 - Initial release (Januray 26, 2018)

Initial release of the NGINX Ansible role. Features include:

• Install NGINX Open Source or NGINX Plus.
• Choose between stable or mainline NGINX Open Source.
• Install NGINX Amplify.
• Install NGINX Javascript, Perl, and ModSecurity WAF NGINX modules.
• Enable the NGINX Plus REST API and dashboard.
• Upload NGINX configuration files.
• Templated NGINX configuration system.