Editor – This post formerly described how to create Ansible playbooks for installing NGINX and NGINX Plus. That process is superseded by the Ansible role written by NGINX and published on Ansible Galaxy. For details, see Announcing a Unified Ansible Role for NGINX and NGINX Plus on our blog.
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