Installing Nginx Web server on Ubuntu 22.04 with Ansible

Introduction 

Nginx is a open source web server, nginx has many number of feature like reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy, and HTTP cache in addition to being a web server.

Ansible is a collection of software tools that let infrastructure be written in code. Software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment are all included in the open-source suite.

Prerequisites

• Up and running Ansible server.
• Root access of target machine.
• Internet connectivity with nodes.

We’ll show you how to use the Ansible automation tool to install the nginx web server on a Ubuntu machine in this post.

Step 1: Creating Nginx Playbook

We need to create a nginx-playbook.yml, Ansible play is very import to to execute the task one by one.

To create a nginx-playbook.yml

nano nginx-playbook.yml

Paste the following code.

- hosts: nginxservers
  become: yes
  tasks:

    - name: update
      apt: update_cache=yes   
   
    - name: Install Nginx
      apt: name=nginx state=latest

      notify:
        - restart nginx

  handlers:
    - name: restart nginx
      service: name=nginx state=reloaded

Save and exit from the text editor, This playbook does the following:

• Adds the Nginx repository to the remote server.
• Installs Nginx.
• Starts the Nginx service and enables it to start automatically on boot.

Note that this is just one example, and the specific details of your playbook will depend on your use case and the specific version of Nginx you’re using.

Step 2: Execute Nginx Playbook

We are good to execute the nginx-playbook.yml by following the given command.

ansible-playbook nginx-playbook.yml

The above command start the installation of Nginx webs server on target machine.

Step 3: Testing Nginx Web Page

After installation of Nginx web server using Ansible we can test the apache web server test page on http://localhost or http://IP-ADDRESS 

Conclusion

We have successfully installed Nginx web server on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with Ansible. If you still have any questions, please leave a comment below: