diff --git a/deployment/ansible/roles/model-my-watershed.app/meta/main.yml b/deployment/ansible/roles/model-my-watershed.app/meta/main.yml
index 53b8b58f5..c0fab2048 100644
--- a/deployment/ansible/roles/model-my-watershed.app/meta/main.yml
+++ b/deployment/ansible/roles/model-my-watershed.app/meta/main.yml
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ dependencies:
   - { role: "azavea.yarn" }
   - { role: "azavea.nodejs", nodejs_version: "{{ app_nodejs_version }}", nodejs_npm_version: "{{ app_nodejs_npm_version }}" }
   - { role: "model-my-watershed.celery" }
-  - { role: "azavea.nginx", nginx_delete_default_site: True }
+  - { role: "model-my-watershed.nginx", nginx_delete_default_site: True }
diff --git a/deployment/ansible/roles/model-my-watershed.geoprocessing/meta/main.yml b/deployment/ansible/roles/model-my-watershed.geoprocessing/meta/main.yml
index 60238dcc6..e59960ad7 100644
--- a/deployment/ansible/roles/model-my-watershed.geoprocessing/meta/main.yml
+++ b/deployment/ansible/roles/model-my-watershed.geoprocessing/meta/main.yml
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 dependencies:
   - { role: "azavea.java" }
   - { role: "model-my-watershed.base" }
-  - { role: "azavea.nginx", nginx_delete_default_site: True }
+  - { role: "model-my-watershed.nginx", nginx_delete_default_site: True }
diff --git a/deployment/ansible/roles/model-my-watershed.nginx/defaults/main.yml b/deployment/ansible/roles/model-my-watershed.nginx/defaults/main.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..76614cc54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deployment/ansible/roles/model-my-watershed.nginx/defaults/main.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+nginx_version: "stable"
+nginx_delete_default_site: False
diff --git a/deployment/ansible/roles/model-my-watershed.nginx/handlers/main.yml b/deployment/ansible/roles/model-my-watershed.nginx/handlers/main.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..159596ed1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deployment/ansible/roles/model-my-watershed.nginx/handlers/main.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+- name: Restart Nginx
+  service: name=nginx state=restarted
diff --git a/deployment/ansible/roles/model-my-watershed.nginx/tasks/main.yml b/deployment/ansible/roles/model-my-watershed.nginx/tasks/main.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..69d3d636f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deployment/ansible/roles/model-my-watershed.nginx/tasks/main.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+---
+- name: Install Nginx
+  apt: pkg=nginx-full state=present
+
+- name: Delete default site
+  file: path=/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default state=absent
+  register: delete_default_site
+  when: nginx_delete_default_site | bool
+  notify:
+    - Restart Nginx
+
+- name: Delete default web root
+  file: path=/var/www/html state=absent
+  when: nginx_delete_default_site | bool and delete_default_site is changed
+
+- name: Check Nginx Upstart service definition exists
+  stat: path=/etc/init/nginx.conf
+  register: nginx_upstart
+
+- name: Configure Nginx log rotation
+  template: src=logrotate_nginx.j2 dest=/etc/logrotate.d/nginx
+  when: nginx_upstart.stat.exists
+
+- name: Configure Nginx
+  template: src=nginx.conf.j2 dest=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
+  notify:
+    - Restart Nginx
diff --git a/deployment/ansible/roles/model-my-watershed.nginx/templates/logrotate_nginx.j2 b/deployment/ansible/roles/model-my-watershed.nginx/templates/logrotate_nginx.j2
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..92e628ec3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deployment/ansible/roles/model-my-watershed.nginx/templates/logrotate_nginx.j2
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+/var/log/nginx/*.log {
+	weekly
+	missingok
+	rotate 52
+	compress
+	delaycompress
+	notifempty
+	create 0640 www-data adm
+	sharedscripts
+	prerotate
+		if [ -d /etc/logrotate.d/httpd-prerotate ]; then \
+			run-parts /etc/logrotate.d/httpd-prerotate; \
+		fi \
+	endscript
+	postrotate
+		service nginx rotate >/dev/null 2>&1
+	endscript
+}
diff --git a/deployment/ansible/roles/model-my-watershed.nginx/templates/nginx.conf.j2 b/deployment/ansible/roles/model-my-watershed.nginx/templates/nginx.conf.j2
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..541317b03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deployment/ansible/roles/model-my-watershed.nginx/templates/nginx.conf.j2
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+user www-data;
+worker_processes {{ ansible_processor_count }};
+pid /run/nginx.pid;
+
+events {
+	worker_connections 768;
+}
+
+http {
+	sendfile on;
+	tcp_nopush on;
+	tcp_nodelay on;
+	keepalive_timeout 65;
+	types_hash_max_size 2048;
+
+	server_tokens off;
+
+	include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
+	default_type application/octet-stream;
+
+	access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
+	error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
+
+	gzip on;
+	gzip_vary on;
+	gzip_proxied any;
+	gzip_comp_level 6;
+	gzip_buffers 16 8k;
+	gzip_http_version 1.1;
+	gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript application/javascript;
+
+	include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
+	include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
+}
diff --git a/deployment/ansible/roles/model-my-watershed.tiler/meta/main.yml b/deployment/ansible/roles/model-my-watershed.tiler/meta/main.yml
index 276dc1fc8..6f1a3e38c 100644
--- a/deployment/ansible/roles/model-my-watershed.tiler/meta/main.yml
+++ b/deployment/ansible/roles/model-my-watershed.tiler/meta/main.yml
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 dependencies:
   - { role: "model-my-watershed.base" }
   - { role: "azavea.nodejs", nodejs_version: "{{ tiler_nodejs_version }}", nodejs_npm_version: "{{ tiler_nodejs_npm_version }}" }
-  - { role: "azavea.nginx", nginx_delete_default_site: True }
+  - { role: "model-my-watershed.nginx", nginx_delete_default_site: True }