Security Automation with Ansible 2

Setting up nginx web server

Setting up nginx is as simple as sudo apt-get install nginx, but configuring for our use case and managing the configuration's automated way is where Ansible gives the power. Let's look at the following snippet of nginx's role from the playbook:

- name: adding nginx signing key  apt_key:    url: http://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key    state: present- name: adding sources.list deb url for nginx  lineinfile:    dest: /etc/apt/sources.list    line: "deb http://nginx.org/packages/mainline/ubuntu/ trusty nginx"- name: update the cache and install nginx server  apt:    name: nginx    update_cache: yes    state: present- name: updating customized templates for nginx configuration  template:    src: "{{ item.src }}"    dest: "{{ item.dst }}" with_items: ...