RHEL - Equivalent distribution for use in ansible project and collection

[JackTrue]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

I'm using a lot RHEL and Centos distribution, Now with Centos "stream" moving from v.8 distribution i'm interested in using Rocky Linux.

Describe the solution you'd like

Extend "limitation" in use only whit distribution indicated in vars/main.yml also with Rocky linux distribution

Describe alternatives you've considered

change the following variable available from

nginx_distributions: [
  'Alpine', 'Amazon', 'CentOS', 'Debian', 'FreeBSD', 'RedHat', 'SLES', 'Ubuntu',
  'NetBSD', 'OpenBSD', 'DragonFlyBSD', 'HardenedBSD',
]

--- to ---

nginx_distributions: [
  'Alpine', 'Amazon', 'CentOS', 'Debian', 'FreeBSD', 'RedHat', 'SLES', 'Ubuntu',
  'NetBSD', 'OpenBSD', 'DragonFlyBSD', 'HardenedBSD', 'Rocky',
]

Additional context

The preliminary test can be done correct and installation can be made.

##Add any other context or screenshots about the feature request here.
Tested proficiency with Rocky Linux 8.5 version using the following play:

---
- name: install and starts the Nginx web server on server one 
  hosts: one
  pre_tasks:
  - name: ensure http is not installed
    yum:
      name: httpd
      state: absent

  collections:
    - nginxinc.nginx_core
  roles:
    - role: nginx
...

[alessfg]

Hey @JackTrue!

Thanks for bringing this up! The role should work as is even if it throws a warning message (the platform error is a non blocker). That being said, I will bring up to the relevant teams how/if we plan on adding official support for Rocky in the near future and update the roles as necessary.