Learning DevOps: Continuously Deliver Better Software

Creating a webserver using Ansible and Nginx

Now we have our common role defined, we can move onto defining specific roles to install and manage applications. One of the more common tasks that underpin many web applications is the installation of an HTTP server. This is a relatively common task that belies a large amount of configuration; installing a package is easy, but applying the configuration and tuning can be non-trivial, especially when you are maintaining multiple servers in a cluster. A simple mistake, such as applying tuning to one host but not the other, can lead to obscure issues, such as a misbalanced cluster, and it can be tricky to track down if each host has been created manually. We are going to create a new role that allows ...