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.

If you wish to install NGINX Plus using this role, you will need to obtain an NGINX Plus license beforehand. You do not need to do anything beforehand if you want to install NGINX OSS.

• This role is developed and tested with maintained versions of Ansible core (above 2.12).

• When using Ansible core, you will also need to install the following collections:

  ---
  collections:
    - name: community.general
      version: 4.7.0
    - name: ansible.posix
      version: 1.3.0
    - name: community.docker  # Only required if you plan to use Molecule (see below)
      version: 2.3.0

  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.

• You will need to run this role as a root user using Ansible's become parameter. Make sure you have set up the appropriate permissions on your target hosts.

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

• This role uses Jinja2 templates. Ansible core installs Jinja2 by default, but depending on your install and/or upgrade path, you might be running an outdated version of Jinja2.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 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. You will also need to install the Molecule Docker driver.
• To run the NGINX Plus Molecule tests, you must copy your NGINX Plus license to the role's files/license folder.

You can alternatively add your NGINX Plus repository certificate and key to the local environment. Run the following commands to export these files as base64-encoded variables and execute the Molecule tests:

export NGINX_CRT=$( cat <path to your certificate file> | base64 )
export NGINX_KEY=$( cat <path to your key file> | base64 )
molecule test -s plus

Use ansible-galaxy install nginxinc.nginx to install the latest stable release of the role on your system. Alternatively, if you have already installed the role, use ansible-galaxy install -f nginxinc.nginx to update the role to the latest release.

Use git clone https://github.com/nginxinc/ansible-role-nginx.git to pull the latest edge commit of the role from GitHub.

The NGINX Ansible role supports all platforms supported by NGINX Open Source, NGINX Plus, and the NGINX Amplify agent:

Alpine:
  - 3.12
  - 3.13
  - 3.14
  - 3.15
Amazon Linux:
  - 2
CentOS:
  - 7.4+
Debian:
  - buster (10)
  - bullseye (11)
Red Hat:
  - 7.4+
  - 8
Rocky:
  - 8
SUSE/SLES:
  - 12
  - 15
Ubuntu:
  - bionic (18.04)
  - focal (20.04)
  - impish (21.10)
  - jammy (22.04)

Alpine:
  - 3.12
  - 3.13
  - 3.14
  - 3.15
Amazon Linux 2:
  - any
CentOS:
  - 7.4+
Debian:
  - buster (10)
  - bullseye (11)
FreeBSD:
  - 12.1+
  - 13
Oracle Linux:
  - 7.4+
Red Hat:
  - 7.4+
  - 8
SUSE/SLES:
  - 12
  - 15
Ubuntu:
  - bionic (18.04)
  - focal (20.04)

Amazon Linux 2:
  - any
CentOS:
  - 7
Debian:
  - buster (10)
  - bullseye (11)
Red Hat:
  - 8
Ubuntu:
  - 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.

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:

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

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

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.

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 WAF and NGINX App Protect DoS 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.

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