Ansible role: eriklotin.nginx

This role installs Docker and run nginx-proxy and nginx-proxy-letsencrypt containers.

After that you can run you own containers with environments variables:

• VIRTUAL_HOST - your host (example.com).
• VIRTUAL_PORT - port that your app is listen to (you should not expose ports from container with -p flag!).
• LETSENCRYPT_HOST - your domain one more time.
• LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL - your valid email address.

Virtual host and certificates will be created automatically.

Install

ansible-galaxy install eriklotin.nginx

or install locally:

ansible-galaxy install eriklotin.nginx -p ./roles/

Variables

List of system users which will be added to docker system group.

docker_users: []

Working directory. nginx in home directory by default. Will created by role.

nginx_workdir: "{{ ansible_env.HOME }}/nginx"

Example playbook

- hosts: all

  vars:
    - docker_users: ["ubuntu"]

  roles:
    - role: eriklotin.nginx
    
  tasks:
    - name: Create an app container
      docker_container:
        name: myapp
        image: myappimage
        state: started
        restart_policy: on-failure
        restart_retries: 5
        restart: no
        env:
          VIRTUAL_HOST: "example.com"
          VIRTUAL_PORT: "3000"
          LETSENCRYPT_HOST: "example.com"
          LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL: "[email protected]"

Dependencies

This role uses eriklotin.docker role to install Docker and do post-install tasks.

License

MIT. See LICENSE file.

Author

Created in 2019-02 by Erik Lotin.