Notice: Not maintained anymore, docker is better suited for such deployments

Ansible Nginx/Unicorn setup

This Ansible role installs Nginx and generates configuration for Unicorn applications

Requirements

None

Notes

This role does not install or configure Unicorn itself. It is designed to play nicely with a Unicorn role such as Unicorn-RVM.

Role Variables

• nginx_sites is an array of unicorn sites, defaults to []

  Each nginx_sites entry is a dict with the following options:

  • name (eg my_app, required)
  • server_name (eg my-app.my-domain.org, required, in any format supported by nginx)
  • root defaults to /var/www/{{ name }}/current (Capistrano compatible)
  • listen defaults to [::]:80 (Both IPv4 and IPv6)
  • access_log is a dict with the following options:
    • path defaults to /var/log/nginx/{{ name }}.access.log
    • format is optional, can be used to specify a custom nginx log output format
  • error_log see above
  • ssl if this option is given, an ssl config section will be generated. It contains the following options:
    • certificate required, path to ssl certificate
    • certificate_key required, path to ssl certificate key
    • ssl_only if set to true, always redirect to ssl
    • spdy if set to true, enable spdy support
    • gzip_assets if set to true, enable serving gzipped 'assets' folder, cached for 16w (useful for rails with asset precompilation)
    • sensitive_uris required unless ssl_only, nginx uri expressions that will be served using https
    • access_log as above, for https requests
    • error_log as above, for https requests

Example Playbook

The role could be included in a playbook as follows (unicorn-rvm also shown):

---
-hosts: application
  roles:
    - role: unicorn-rvm
      rails_apps:
        - { name: 'my_app1', ruby_version: 'ruby-1.9.3' }
        - { name: 'my_app2', ruby_version: 'ruby-2.1.1', root: '/var/test_apps/app2', env: staging }
    - role: nginx-unicorn
      nginx_sites:
        - name: 'my_app1'
          server_name: 'my-app1.example.com'
          access_log:
            format: 'main'
          ssl:
            certificate: /etc/ssl/localcerts/my_app1.pem
            certificate_key: /etc/ssl/localcerts/my_app1.key
            sensitive_uris:
              - ^/user/sign_in(.*)
              - ^/user/password(.*)
            access_log:
              format: 'main'
        - name: 'my_app2'
          server_name: 'my-app2.example.com *.mydomain.com'
          root: '/var/test_apps/app2'
          ssl:
            certificate: /etc/ssl/localcerts/my_app2.crt
            certificate_key: /etc/ssl/localcerts/my_app2.key
            ssl_only: true

License

MIT