Ansible NGINX Role

This role installs NGINX Open Source, NGINX Plus, the NGINX Amplify agent, or NGINX Unit 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 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.

Requirements

Ansible

This role was developed and tested with maintained versions of Ansible. Backwards compatibility is not guaranteed.

Instructions on how to install Ansible can be found in the Ansible website.

Molecule

Molecule is used to test the various functionalities of the role.

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, the NGINX Amplify agent, and NGINX Unit (you can also use this role to compile NGINX Open Source from source or install it on BSD systems at your own risk):

NGINX Open Source

Alpine:
  - 3.9
  - 3.10
  - 3.11
  - 3.12
CentOS:
  - 6
  - 7.4+
  - 8
Debian:
  - stretch
  - buster
Red Hat:
  - 6
  - 7.4+
  - 8
SUSE/SLES:
  - 12
  - 15
Ubuntu:
  - xenial
  - bionic
  - eoan
  - focal

NGINX Plus

Alpine:
  - 3.9
  - 3.10
  - 3.11
Amazon Linux:
  - 2018.03
Amazon Linux 2:
  - any
CentOS:
  - 6.5+
  - 7.4+
  - 8
Debian:
  - stretch
  - buster
FreeBSD:
  - 11.2+
  - 12
Oracle Linux:
  - 6.5+
  - 7.4+
Red Hat:
  - 6.5+
  - 7.4+
  - 8
SUSE/SLES:
  - 12
  - 15
Ubuntu:
  - xenial
  - bionic
  - eoan
  - focal

NGINX Amplify Agent

Amazon Linux:
  - 2017.09
CentOS:
  - 6
  - 7
Debian:
  - jessie
  - stretch
Red Hat:
  - 6
  - 7
Ubuntu:
  - xenial
  - bionic
  - focal

NGINX Unit

Amazon Linux:
  - 2018.03
Amazon Linux 2:
  - any
CentOS:
  - 6
  - 7
  - 8
Debian:
  - stretch
  - buster
Red Hat:
  - 6
  - 7
  - 8
Ubuntu:
  - xenial
  - bionic
  - focal

Role Variables

This role has multiple variables. The descriptions and defaults for all these variables can be found in the defaults/main/ directory in the following files:

defaults/main/main.yml: NGINX installation variables
defaults/main/amplify.yml: NGINX Amplify agent installation variables
defaults/main/template.yml: NGINX configuration templating variables
defaults/main/upload.yml: NGINX configuration/HTML/SSL upload variables
defaults/main/linux.yml: Linux installation variables
defaults/main/bsd.yml: BSD installation variables
defaults/main/unit.yml: NGINX Unit installation variables

Similarly, descriptions and defaults for preset variables can be found in the vars/ directory in the following files:

vars/main.yml: List of supported NGINX platforms and modules

Example Playbooks

Working functional playbook examples can be found in the molecule/common/ directory in the following files:

molecule/common/playbooks/default_converge.yml: Install a specific version of NGINX and set up logrotate
molecule/common/playbooks/module_converge.yml: Install various NGINX supported modules
molecule/common/playbooks/plus_converge.yml: Install NGINX Plus and various NGINX Plus supported modules
molecule/common/playbooks/source_converge.yml: Install NGINX from source
molecule/common/playbooks/stable_push_converge.yml: Install NGINX using the stable branch and push a preexisting config from your system to your NGINX instance
molecule/common/playbooks/template_converge.yml: Use the NGINX configuration templating variables to create an NGINX configuration file
molecule/common/playbooks/unit_converge.yml: Install NGINX Unit

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.