Pound

This Ansible role enables users to install and configure the pound reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server(s)

Requirements

This role requires Ansible 1.4 or higher, and platform requirements are listed in the metadata file.

Role Variables

The variables that can be passed to this role and a brief description about them are as follows. See the Pound configuration documentation for details:

pound_svc_name: pound

# What level to log at
pound_log_level: 1

# What ip address should pound listen on?
pound_listen_http_address: 127.0.0.1

# What port should pound listen on?
pound_listen_http_port: 80

# What ip will pound be proxying traffic to?
# - add more by adding additional items in the form ['ip', 'port']
pound_backend_servers: 
  - [ '127.0.0.1', '8080' ]
  - [ '192.168.100.100', '8080']

Examples

1. Install pound and set the default settings.

   • hosts: all roles:
     • role: pound

Dependencies

To install Pound in RedHat derivatives you will need the EPEL repository.

License

BSD

Author Information

curtis@serverascode.com

Thanks

This was based on the NTP module.