Logrotate with ansible playbook

Question

so i would like to create a ansible playbook that installs logrotate on all the servers in company. Also configs them to to set logs to be backed up weekly and then deleted a week after. So each week it makes a new log, backups last week log and on the third week it deletes the first one and repeats.

So far i have found this but we do not use nginx. And it does not do exactly what i want. My knowledge in playbooks is quite limited so if someone could help with it would be awesome. Also i need it to check if the server has tomcat, apache or wildfly and then takes those logs.

logrotate_scripts:
  - name: nginx-options
    path: /var/log/nginx/options.log
      options:
      - daily
      - weekly
      - size 25M
      - rotate 7
      - missingok
      - compress
      - delaycompress
      - copytruncate

Answer 1

Let's use blockinfile. For example the task

    - blockinfile:
        path: "/etc/logrotate.d/{{ item.path }}"
        block: "{{ item.conf }}"
        create: true
      loop: "{{ lp_logrotate_confd }}"

with the variable

    lp_logrotate_confd:
      - path: ansible
        conf: |
          /var/log/ansible.log {
                 weekly
                 rotate 3
                 size 10M
                 compress
                 delaycompress
          }

creates

    shell> cat /etc/logrotate.d/ansible 
    # BEGIN ANSIBLE MANAGED BLOCK
    /var/log/ansible.log {
           weekly
           rotate 3
           size 10M
           compress
           delaycompress
    }
    # END ANSIBLE MANAGED BLOCK

Add items to the list and fit the configuration data to your needs. For your convenience, the code is available at GitHub.