nginxinc/ansible-role-nginx 0.25.0

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What's new in NGINX's Ansible role 0.25.0!

💣 Breaking Changes

• Remove Alpine Linux 3.17 support for NGINX Open Source (#830) @alessfg
• Remove support for Alpine Linux 3.16 (#738) @alessfg
• Remove support for RHEL 7 based distributions (#732) @alessfg

🔔 Deprecation Warnings

• The NGINX Agent features contained in this role will be split into a separate role in the next minor release. If you are using this role to install and configure the NGINX Agent, please switch to the new role once it's available.

🚀 Features

• Add ansible_managed comment to templated configs (#763) @alessfg
• Remove unnecessary task when installing modules on Alpine Linux (#757) @alessfg
• Implement OSSF Scorecard (#751) @alessfg
• Remove platform metadata from the Ansible Galaxy role metadata (#743) @alessfg
• Add support for Alpine Linux 3.20 (#736) @alessfg
• Remove support for Alpine Linux 3.16 (#738) @alessfg
• Add validation task for NGINX modules and installing NGINX Plus HA keepalived module (#764) @alessfg
• Add NGINX Agent config template (#750) @alessfg
• Add support for NGINX Plus R33 and the new JWT license (#814) @alessfg

🧪 Tests

• Update RHEL UBI images to UBI 8.10 and UBI 9.4 (#753) @alessfg
• Remove commented out Molecule platforms (#741) @alessfg

👷 CI/CD

• Update GH Actions to Ubuntu 24.04 and switch from tags to hashes (#739) @alessfg
• Remove Dependabot (#802) @alessfg

⬆️ Dependencies

📝 Documentation

• Update README (#744) @alessfg
• Update community docs (#742) @alessfg

Install & Upgrade

• To install the Ansible NGINX role on a fresh environment, run ansible-galaxy install nginxinc.nginx.
• To upgrade the Ansible NGINX role to the latest release, run ansible-galaxy install -f nginxinc.nginx.
• To install or upgrade to this specific Ansible NGINX role release (0.25.0), run ansible-galaxy install -f nginxinc.nginx,v0.25.0.

Resources

• Functional configuration examples (check converge.yml under each molecule scenario) -- github.com/nginxinc/ansible-role-nginx/tree/0.25.0/molecule.
• Ansible Galaxy repository -- galaxy.ansible.com/nginxinc/nginx.
• NGINX Ansible role & collection introductory blog -- f5.com/blog/announcing-nginx-core-collection-ansible.
• Better with Ansible demo -- github.com/alessfg/nginx-ansible-demo.