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.

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 functionailities 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:

NGINX Open Source

Alpine:
  versions:
    - 3.8
    - 3.9
    - 3.10
    - 3.11
CentOS:
  versions:
    - 6
    - 7
    - 8
Debian:
  versions:
    - stretch
    - buster
FreeBSD:
  versions:
    - 11.2+
    - 12
RedHat:
  versions:
    - 6
    - 7.4+
    - 8
SUSE/SLES:
  versions:
    - 12
    - 15
Ubuntu:
  versions:
    - xenial
    - bionic
    - focal

NGINX Plus

Alpine:
  versions:
    - 3.8
    - 3.9
    - 3.10
    - 3.11
Amazon Linux:
  versions:
    - 2018.03
Amazon Linux 2:
  versions:
    - any
CentOS:
  versions:
    - 6.5+
    - 7.4+
    - 8
Debian:
  versions:
    - stretch
    - buster
FreeBSD:
  versions:
    - 11.2+
    - 12
Oracle Linux:
  versions:
    - 6.5+
    - 7.4+
RedHat:
  versions:
    - 6.5+
    - 7.4+
    - 8
SUSE/SLES:
  versions:
    - 12
    - 15
Ubuntu:
  versions:
    - xenial
    - bionic
    - focal

NGINX Amplify Agent

Amazon Linux:
  versions:
    - 2017.09
CentOS:
  versions:
    - 6
    - 7
Debian:
  versions:
    - jessie
    - stretch
Ubuntu:
  versions:
    - xenial
    - bionic
RedHat:
  versions:
    - 6
    - 7

NGINX Unit

Amazon Linux:
  versions:
    - 2018.03
Amazon Linux 2:
  versions:
    - any
CentOS:
  versions:
    - 6
    - 7
    - 8
Debian:
  versions:
    - stretch
    - buster
RedHat:
  versions:
    - 6
    - 7
    - 8
Ubuntu:
  versions:
    - 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

Example Playbooks

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

• molecule/common/playbook_default.yml: Install a specific version of NGINX and set up logrotate
• molecule/common/playbook_module.yml: Install various NGINX supported modules
• molecule/common/playbook_source.yml: Install NGINX from source
• molecule/common/playbook_stable_push.yml: Install NGINX using the stable branch and push a preexisting config from your system to your NGINX instance
• molecule/common/playbook_template.yml: Use the NGINX configuration templating variables to create an NGINX configuration file
• molecule/common/playbook_unit.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.

Other NGINX Roles

You can find an Ansible collection of roles to help you install and configure NGINX Controller here

You can find an Ansible role to help you install and configure NGINX App Protect here

License

Apache License, Version 2.0

Author Information

Alessandro Fael Garcia

Grzegorz Dzien

Tom Gamull

© NGINX, Inc. 2018 - 2020