Nginx with http2 support

This role compiles Nginx from source with HTTP/2 support and the following optional modules:

• pagespeed
• lua
• upload progress

Credits

The steps for compiling openssl and nginx with http/2 support were taken from AJMaxwell's bash script (https://gist.github.com/AJMaxwell/f6793605068813aae888216b02364d85). There are only a few modifications to the dependencies. Credit also goes to mrbdmm who came up with the initial steps in a DigitalOcean thread: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-get-already-installed-nginx-to-use-openssl-1-0-2-for-alpn

Supported Distributons

This was only tested in Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) and Debian 8 (jessie).

Requirements

You will need to configure SSL and update the nginx virtual host file.

Role Variables

There is one manadatory variable you have to set:

  destination: /home/user

We need to run some of the compilation commands (such as make test) as unpriviledged user. The best way to do that is to download everything in a user's home folder rather than a more typical destination like /opt

And some optional variables with the versions you want to install. If not specified it will default to the following:

  nginx_version: 1.11.2
  openssl_version: 1.0.2j
  nps_version: 1.11.33.2
  luajit_version: 2.0.4
  luajit_major_version: 2.0
  lua_nginx_module_version: 0.10.7
  ngx_devel_kit_version: 0.3.0
  ngx_upload_progress_version: '0.9.2'

Optional modules included:

  include_lua: true
  include_pagespeed: true
  include_upload_progress: true

Example Playbook

This is how you would use this in your playbook:

- hosts: servers
  vars:
    include_lua: false # to compile without lua
    destination: /home/user
  roles:
     - { role: tzumby.nginx-http2 }

License

BSD