In today’s rapidly evolving IT landscape, the ability to respond quickly to system changes is essential. Event-driven automation enables systems to react instantly to specific triggers or events, enhancing infrastructure resilience and efficiency. A simple and effective method for implementing event-driven automation is through webhooks, which can initiate specific actions in response to events.
In this article, I’ll walk you through an example of using Ansible to monitor and manage a Nginx web server — specifically, to demonstrate how to use a URL check module to trigger a node restart playbook that will automatically start the Nginx server when a particular URL becomes unreachable.