Installing NGINX Agent

Installing from the NGINX repo

A. In Ubuntu

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   Create the /etc/ssl/nginx directory:

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   sudo mkdir -p /etc/ssl/nginx
   

2. >

   Log in to the MyF5 Customer Portal and download your nginx-repo.crt and nginx-repo.key files.

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   Copy the files to the /etc/ssl/nginx/ directory:

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   sudo cp nginx-repo.crt nginx-repo.key /etc/ssl/nginx/
   

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   Install the prerequisites:

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   sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https lsb-release ca-certificates wget gnupg2 ubuntu-keyring
   

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   Download and add the NGINX signing key:

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   wget -qO - https://cs.nginx.com/static/keys/nginx_signing.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/nginx-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null
   

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   Create the apt configuration /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/90pkgs-nginx:

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   Acquire::https::pkgs.nginx.com::Verify-Peer "true";
   Acquire::https::pkgs.nginx.com::Verify-Host "true";
   Acquire::https::pkgs.nginx.com::SslCert     "/etc/ssl/nginx/nginx-repo.crt";
   Acquire::https::pkgs.nginx.com::SslKey      "/etc/ssl/nginx/nginx-repo.key";
   

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   Add the nginx-agent repository:

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   echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/nginx-archive-keyring.gpg] https://pkgs.nginx.com/nginx-agent/ubuntu/ `lsb_release -cs` agent" \
     | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nginx-agent.list
   

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   To install nginx-agent, run the following commands:

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   sudo apt update
   sudo apt install nginx-agent
   

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   Verify the installation:

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   sudo nginx-agent -v