ansible-nginx/doc/upstream.md

Upstream management

nginx_upstreams: List of dict. An upstream has few keys. See bellow.

Note: Few params are unavailable on old Nginx version. But this role do not put it if your version is too old!

Upstream params

• name: upstream name. Can be use in vhost with proxy_pass http://upstream_name
• params: list of param (hash, zone...)
• servers: each upstream MUST have at least 1 server

Server params

You must set a path. For example: 192.168.0.50:8080 or unix:/tmp/my.sock.

All this params are optional. You should see Nginx upstream doc.

• weight
• max_fails
• fail_timeout
• backup
• down
• route
• slowstart`