NGINX .conf 2015

1. Deploying NGINX Plus
with Ansible
Kevin Jones @webopsx
9-24-2015

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Currently a Sales Engineer working for NGINX, Inc.
Previously worked at Yellow Pages LLC, - AKA YP
Background in Production Operations and Site Reliability
Experience with large scale application management and deployment
- 6,000+ servers
- 2 US data centers
- 300+ virtual servers
Love automating things and making my life easier :)
Enjoy music and meeting new people! Come say hi!
A little about me.

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Quick Intro to Ansible
What is Ansible and how can it help
you?
Configuration Overview
In my demo we will deploy NGINX Plus
as a Load Balancer and a Web Server
Ansible / NGINX Plus Demo
Lets hope this works!! :X
Ansible / NGINX Plus Help
Where can I get help? What next? “Chargggge!”

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“Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud
provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service
orchestration, and many other IT needs.”
http://www.ansible.com/how-ansible-works

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Modules can be written in any language that returns JSON
Tons of modules available to use
YAML based configurations files (easy to read)
SSH or Python API based authentication
Great verbose debugging/logging capabilities
Jinja2 templating
… and much much more.
Why I love Ansible…

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Deployment Modules Used
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modules:
- name: template
use: configuration template deployment
- name: service
use: manage unix services
- name: file
use: create folders or files
- name: copy
use: copy files
- name: get_url
use: download files
- name: yum
use: yum package manager
- name: pip
use: python package manager
- name: uri
use: python HTTP library (uses httplib2)
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/YAMLSyntax.html

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It looks like like a lot but its not…
https://github.com/kmjones1979/ansible-demo

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Demo time.
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HALP!!!11!
NGINX Plus
https://www.nginx.com/resources/admin-guide/
http://nginx.org/en/docs/
Ansible Documentation
http://docs.ansible.com/

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Thank you all for coming!!
http://www.slideshare.net/KevinJones62
https://twitter.com/webopsx