Sample ansible playbook to install nginx with sample page on CentOS7

nginx-centos7.yml

## Credits to John Lieske - https://www.ansible.com/blog/getting-started-writing-your-first-playbook
---
- name: Install nginx
  hosts: host.name.ip
  become: true

  tasks:
  - name: Add epel-release repo
    yum:
      name: epel-release
      state: present

  - name: Install nginx
    yum:
      name: nginx
      state: present

  - name: Insert Index Page
    template:
      src: index.html
      dest: /usr/share/nginx/html/index.html

  - name: Start NGiNX
    service:
      name: nginx
      state: started

Thanks for this tutorials, its really very helpful, now I want complete nginx playbook with mange the all sites. Like: site-available, site-enabled. i mentioned in below example file for Ubuntu, but i need it for CentOS-7.

Example:-

• name: Set up nginx config directory
  file: path=/etc/nginx/{{ item }}
  state=directory
  with_items:
  - sites-available
  - sites-enabled

  • name: Generate the nginx configuration file
    copy: src=files/nginx.conf
    dest=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

  • name: Deactivate the default nginx site
    file: path=/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
    state=absent

  • name: Generate the stub_status site config
    copy: src=files/nginx.status.conf
    dest=/etc/nginx/sites-available/status

  • name: Activate the stub_status site
    file: src=/etc/nginx/sites-available/status
    dest=/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/status
    state=link

  • name: Add site for the app under development
    when: app is defined
    template: src=templates/nginx.site.conf.j2
    dest=/etc/nginx/sites-available/site

  • name: Activate the app
    when: app is defined
    file: src=/etc/nginx/sites-available/site
    dest=/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/site
    state=link

  • name: Configure log rotation
    copy: src=files/nginx.logrotate
    dest=/etc/logrotate.d/nginx

  • name: Copy nginx init script
    sudo: yes
    copy: src=files/nginx.upstart
    dest=/etc/init/nginx.conf
    mode=755

- name: Add ufw rule

sudo: yes

command: iptables allow 80,443/tcp

# Note: ufw isn't enabled at this point

• name: Start NGiNX
  service:
  name: nginx
  state: started

Can we have the ubuntu version

thanks is works

Hi, what should i change in the playbook to modify HTTP listening port to 8080 ?

Hi, what should i change in the playbook to modify HTTP listening port to 8080 ?

Nothing.

However you must change the template files the playbook is referring to.

@Saviour
For Ubuntu. just change the yum to apt

what if we want to run on multiple inventory

Thank you very much
to start nginx automatically after restarting the server I think we need the folowing:

- name: Start NGiNX service: name: nginx enabled: yes state: started