chrisjalinsky / nginx-lab

A lab demonstrating different Nginx configurations using Ubuntu linux

Nginx Plus Load Balancer lab environment

###Dependencies

• Ansible 2.0
• Vagrant 1.8.5
• Virtualbox 5.0.20 r106931

###Vagrantfile The vagrant up command will, by default, build 3 hosts using the ansible/hosts.yaml API compatible file. Therefore we use the dynamic inventory script to read the hosts.yaml file. Adjust as necessary or use the static_inventory

###Prerequisites

• You need to get a trial key and certificate to authenticate with the NginX Plus Apt repo.

####Place the Nginx Repo key and cert in the ansible nginx role files folder Name them nginx-repo.key and nginx-repo.crt and place them in the

./ansible/roles/nginx/files/etc/ssl/ngninx/ directory

###Ansible Playbooks

Run the playbooks from the project's ansible/ directory. Looking at the playbooks, you can see variables passed into the role, that alters the functionality. There are 2 configurations. A load balancer for proxying SSL TCP requests (provision_nginx_lb.yaml). And SSL/HTTP server configurations with or without self signed certificates (provision_nginx_upstream.yaml).

ansible-playbook provision_nginx_lb.yaml -i inventory.py
ansible-playbook provision_nginx_upstream.yaml -i inventory.py

###Nginx

####Nginx Plus Upstream Dashboard

http://10.10.0.102:8888/status.html#tcp_upstreams

####Test the round robin load balancing

curl -k https://10.10.0.102:443