Installing NGINX and NGINX Plus with Puppet
Installing NGINX and NGINX Plus with Puppet In previous blog posts we have shown how to use Ansible and Chef to install the open source NGINX software and NGINX Plus. In this post we’ll cover how to use Puppet. Puppet maintains an extensive collection of modules, both community-contributed and in-house, that make it easy to get started. The default NGINX module, written by James Fryman, is very powerful and has built‑in support for generating NGINX configuration files from simple Puppet manifest files. In this post we show how to use that module to install the open source NGINX software, as well as how to make the necessary modifications for installing and configuring NGINX Plus. This post assumes that you have a basic understanding of Puppet and its configuration files. If you need to review, please check out the tutorials and documentation at the Puppet [ more… ]