ansible-nginx-load-balancer

Ansible role to set up and manage an NGINX load balancer for:

Uses

• Balancing HTTP traffic
• Balancing HTTPS traffic
  • Handling SSL connections
  • Using self-signed certificates
• Balancing TCP traffic
• Balancing UDP traffic
• Setting up High Availability (HA)

Build Status

GitHub Actions

Travis CI

Requirements

For any needed Ansible roles, check: requirements.yml

Role Variables

See defaults/main.yml for default variables.

Dependencies

These Ansible roles should be used together with the ansible-nginx-load-balancer role:

• ansible-etc-hosts
  • Lets you update the /etc/hosts file with all hosts in the setup.
• ansible-keepalived
  • Provides a Virtual IP (VIP) for High Availability across multiple ansible-nginx-load-balancer nodes.

You can install these roles with ansible-galaxy using the included requirements.

ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml

Sample Playbook

Refer to playbook.yml for an example.

License

MIT

Author Information

Larry Smith Jr.

• @mrlesmithjr
• [email protected]
• http://everythingshouldbevirtual.com

NOTE: This repository was created/updated using https://github.com/mrlesmithjr/cookiecutter-ansible-role as a template.