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Official Ansible Galaxy NGINX Roles Out Now NGINX has now created officially supported Ansible Roles for the open source NGINX software and NGINX Plus available on Ansible Galaxy. These Ansible Roles will be in continual development to support customer use cases. Within Ansible, the automation engine for application deployment, a Playbook allows users to install and configure applications across multiple servers, environments, and operating systems, all from one central location. An Ansible Role, in turn, bundles Ansible variables, tasks, and handlers into a clearly defined file structure. An Ansible Role can be dropped into an Ansible Playbook and immediately put to work. You can find community-developed roles at Ansible Galaxy, a free site for sharing, finding, and downloading roles. Downloading roles from Ansible Galaxy is a great way to jumpstart your automation projects. Installing the NGINX Ansible Galaxy Roles is [ more… ]

The NGINX WAF with ModSecurity and Project Honeypot “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” – Warren Buffett To help fight crime, the FBI maintains a public Ten Most Wanted list, a list of the most dangerous criminals out there. Anyone who sees someone on the list can call the police, making it more difficult for these criminals to commit more crimes. In the world of technology, there’s a similar concept called Project Honeypot. Project Honeypot maintains a list of known malicious IPs. The list is available for free to the public. ModSecurity integrates with Project HoneyPot and can automatically block IP addresses on the Project Honeypot list. This process is known as IP reputation. In this blog post, we’ll cover how to configure ModSecurity [ more… ]