diff --git a/defaults/main.yml b/defaults/main.yml
index 240cb06..8bda2d5 100644
--- a/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/defaults/main.yml
@@ -16,10 +16,6 @@
 ## Verbosity Options
 debug: False
 
-## Cap the maximum number of threads / workers when a user value is unspecified.
-repo_nginx_threads_max: 16
-repo_nginx_threads: "{{ [[ansible_facts['processor_vcpus'] | default(2) // 2, 1] | max, repo_nginx_threads_max] | min }}"
-
 ## APT Cache Options
 cache_timeout: 600
 
@@ -32,13 +28,39 @@ repo_worker_connections: 1024
 repo_server_name: openstack-slushee
 
 repo_service_home_folder: /var/www
-repo_service_user_name: nginx
+repo_service_user_name: www-data
 repo_service_group_name: www-data
+repo_system_service_name: "{{ _repo_system_service_name }}"
 
 # Main web server port
 repo_server_bind_address: "{{ openstack_service_bind_address | default('0.0.0.0') }}"
 repo_server_port: 8181
 
+repo_vhost_enable_path: "{{ _repo_vhost_enable_path }}"
+
+repo_apache_conf: "{{ _repo_apache_conf }}"
+repo_apache_configs: "{{ _repo_apache_configs }}"
+repo_apache_custom_log_format: '"%h %l %u \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-agent}i\""'
+repo_apache_default_sites: "{{ _repo_apache_default_sites }}"
+repo_apache_log_level: info
+# List of modules to enable are respected only for Debian Family
+repo_apache_modules: "{{ _repo_apache_modules }}"
+
+# MPM tunables
+repo_apache_mpm_backend: "{{ openstack_apache_mpm_backend | default('event') }}"
+repo_apache_threads_max: "{{ openstack_apache_threads_max | default(16) }}"
+repo_apache_mpm_server_limit: "{{ [[ansible_facts['processor_vcpus'] | default(2) // 2, 1] | max, repo_apache_threads_max | int] | min }}"
+repo_apache_mpm_start_servers: "{{ openstack_apache_start_servers | default(2) }}"
+repo_apache_mpm_min_spare_threads: "{{ openstack_apache_min_spare_threads | default(25) }}"
+repo_apache_mpm_max_spare_threads: "{{ openstack_apache_max_spare_threads | default(75) }}"
+repo_apache_mpm_thread_limit: "{{ openstack_apache_thread_limit | default(64) }}"
+repo_apache_mpm_thread_child: "{{ openstack_apache_thread_child | default(25) }}"
+repo_apache_mpm_max_requests: "{{ repo_apache_mpm_server_limit | int * repo_apache_mpm_thread_child | int }}"
+repo_apache_mpm_max_conn_child: "{{ openstack_apache_max_conn_child | default(0) }}"
+
+repo_apache_security_conf: "{{ _repo_apache_security_conf }}"
+## Cap the maximum number of threads / workers when a user value is unspecified.
+
 # This directory is used by the repo_build, and will cause problems if synced
 # to repo_containers with other releases.
 repo_build_global_links_dirname: links
@@ -92,6 +114,11 @@ repo_pki_certificates:
 repo_ssl_cert: /etc/ssl/certs/repo.pem
 repo_ssl_key: /etc/ssl/private/repo.key
 repo_ssl_ca_cert: /etc/ssl/certs/repo-ca.pem
+repo_ssl_protocol: "{{ ssl_protocol | default('ALL -SSLv2 -SSLv3 -TLSv1 -TLSv1.1') }}"
+# TLS v1.2 and below
+repo_ssl_cipher_suite_tls12: "{{ ssl_cipher_suite | default('ECDH+AESGCM:ECDH+CHACHA20:ECDH+AES256:ECDH+AES128:!aNULL:!SHA1:!AESCCM') }}"
+# TLS v1.3
+repo_ssl_cipher_suite_tls13: "{{ ssl_cipher_suite_tls13 | default('TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256') }}"
 
 # Installation details for SSL certificates
 repo_pki_install_certificates:
diff --git a/handlers/main.yml b/handlers/main.yml
index 3e7a433..0bb8d5f 100644
--- a/handlers/main.yml
+++ b/handlers/main.yml
@@ -13,15 +13,11 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-- name: Reload nginx
+- name: Restart web server
   service:
-    name: "nginx"
+    name: "{{ repo_system_service_name }}"
     enabled: yes
-    state: restarted
+    state: "restarted"
     daemon_reload: "{{ (ansible_facts['service_mgr'] == 'systemd') | ternary('yes', omit) }}"
-  register: _restart
-  until: _restart is success
-  retries: 5
-  delay: 2
   listen:
     - "cert installed"
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/replace_nginx_apache-f62e453f44acf790.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/replace_nginx_apache-f62e453f44acf790.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1844a9c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/replace_nginx_apache-f62e453f44acf790.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+---
+
+upgrade:
+  - |
+    A web server for repo containers/hosts has been changed from Nginx to
+    Apache.
+    This was made to reduce amount of services we manage with roles and to
+    better align approaches and development vectors.
diff --git a/tasks/repo_install.yml b/tasks/repo_install.yml
index 3eb78f6..b00f1a8 100644
--- a/tasks/repo_install.yml
+++ b/tasks/repo_install.yml
@@ -13,20 +13,11 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-- name: Remove old nginx repo
-  yum_repository:
-    name: "nginx"
+# TODO: remove this task after 2025.1 (Epoxy) release
+- name: Remove nginx web server
+  package:
+    name: nginx-*
     state: absent
-  register: _repo_removed
-  when:
-    - ansible_facts['pkg_mgr'] == 'dnf'
-
-- name: Clean yum metadata when nginx repo is removed
-  command: dnf clean metadata
-  changed_when: false
-  when:
-    - ansible_facts['pkg_mgr'] == 'dnf'
-    - _repo_removed is changed
 
 - name: Install distro packages
   package:
diff --git a/tasks/repo_post_install.yml b/tasks/repo_post_install.yml
index ea07a08..9a7352b 100644
--- a/tasks/repo_post_install.yml
+++ b/tasks/repo_post_install.yml
@@ -19,33 +19,53 @@
     name: pack.threads
     value: '0'
 
-- name: Remove default nginx file
-  file:
-    path: "{{ item.path }}"
-    state: "{{ item.state | default('absent') }}"
-    mode: "0644"
-  with_items:
-    - path: "/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default"
-  notify:
-    - Reload nginx
+- name: Enable apache2 modules
+  apache2_module:
+    name: "{{ item.name }}"
+    state: "{{ item.state }}"
+    ignore_configcheck: yes
+  with_items: "{{ repo_apache_modules }}"
+  when:
+    - ansible_facts['pkg_mgr'] == 'apt'
+  notify: Restart web server
 
-- name: Drop NGINX configuration files
+- name: Disable default apache site
+  file:
+    path: "{{ item }}"
+    state: "absent"
+  with_items: "{{ repo_apache_default_sites }}"
+  notify: Restart web server
+
+- name: Ensure Apache configuration
+  lineinfile:
+    dest: "{{ repo_apache_conf }}"
+    line: "{{ item }}"
+  notify: Restart web server
+  with_items:
+    - "ServerName {{ repo_server_name }}"
+    - "ErrorLog syslog:daemon"
+
+- name: Create Apache config
   template:
-    src: "{{ item.src }}"
-    dest: "{{ item.dest }}"
+    src: "{{ item['src'] }}"
+    dest: "{{ item['dest'] }}"
+    owner: "{{ item['owner'] }}"
+    group: "{{ item['group'] }}"
     mode: "0644"
-  with_items:
-    - src: "nginx.conf.j2"
-      dest: "/etc/nginx/nginx.conf"
-    - src: "openstack-slushee.vhost.j2"
-      dest: "/etc/nginx/sites-available/openstack-slushee.vhost"
-  notify:
-    - Reload nginx
+  with_items: "{{ repo_apache_configs }}"
+  notify: Restart web server
 
-- name: Enable openstack-slushee site
+- name: Enable repo site
   file:
-    src: "/etc/nginx/sites-available/openstack-slushee.vhost"
-    dest: "/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/openstack-slushee.vhost"
+    src: "/etc/{{ repo_system_service_name }}/sites-available/openstack_slushee.conf"
+    dest: "{{ repo_vhost_enable_path }}/openstack_slushee.conf"
     state: "link"
-  notify:
-    - Reload nginx
+  notify: Restart web server
+
+- name: Remove Listen from Apache config
+  lineinfile:
+    dest: "{{ repo_apache_security_conf }}"
+    regexp: '^(Listen.*)'
+    backrefs: yes
+    line: '#\1'
+  notify: Restart web server
diff --git a/tasks/repo_pre_install.yml b/tasks/repo_pre_install.yml
index 1d52091..d8b7a9e 100644
--- a/tasks/repo_pre_install.yml
+++ b/tasks/repo_pre_install.yml
@@ -52,11 +52,11 @@
     state: "{{ item.state | default('directory') }}"
     owner: "{{ repo_service_user_name }}"
     group: "{{ repo_service_group_name }}"
-    mode: "{{ item.mode | default('02755') }}"
+    mode: "{{ item.mode | default('2755') }}"
   with_items:
     - path: "{{ repo_service_home_folder }}"
     - path: "{{ repo_service_home_folder }}/.ssh"
-      mode: "02700"
+      mode: "2700"
     - path: "{{ repo_service_home_folder }}/repo"
     - path: "{{ repo_service_home_folder }}/repo/links"
     - path: "{{ repo_service_home_folder }}/repo/os-releases"
@@ -64,10 +64,13 @@
     - path: "{{ repo_service_home_folder }}/repo/pools"
     - path: "{{ repo_service_home_folder }}/repo/venvs"
     - path: "{{ repo_service_home_folder }}/repo/constraints"
+    - path: "/etc/{{ repo_system_service_name }}/sites-available"
     - path: "/var/lib/nginx"
+      state: absent
     - path: "/var/log/nginx"
-      mode: "0775"
+      state: absent
 
+# NOTE: Remove after 2025.1 (Epoxy) release
 - name: File and directory setup (root user)
   file:
     path: "{{ item.path }}"
@@ -77,5 +80,8 @@
     mode: "0755"
   with_items:
     - path: "/etc/nginx/conf.d"
+      state: absent
     - path: "/etc/nginx/sites-available"
+      state: absent
     - path: "/etc/nginx/sites-enabled"
+      state: absent
diff --git a/templates/apache_mpm.conf.j2 b/templates/apache_mpm.conf.j2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f881458
--- /dev/null
+++ b/templates/apache_mpm.conf.j2
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+<IfModule mpm_{{ repo_apache_mpm_backend }}_module>
+        ServerLimit              {{ repo_apache_mpm_server_limit }}
+        StartServers             {{ repo_apache_mpm_start_servers }}
+        MinSpareThreads          {{ repo_apache_mpm_min_spare_threads }}
+        MaxSpareThreads          {{ repo_apache_mpm_max_spare_threads }}
+        ThreadLimit              {{ repo_apache_mpm_thread_limit }}
+        ThreadsPerChild          {{ repo_apache_mpm_thread_child }}
+        MaxRequestWorkers        {{ repo_apache_mpm_max_requests }}
+        MaxConnectionsPerChild   {{ repo_apache_mpm_max_conn_child }}
+</IfModule>
diff --git a/templates/apache_ports.conf.j2 b/templates/apache_ports.conf.j2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3c32de3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/templates/apache_ports.conf.j2
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# {{ ansible_managed }}
+
+# We place a blank file here
+# Listen commands happen inside the individual VHost files
+# This allows for multiple services VHosts to exist without
+# overwriting Listen lines.
diff --git a/templates/nginx.conf.j2 b/templates/nginx.conf.j2
deleted file mode 100644
index 91092e1..0000000
--- a/templates/nginx.conf.j2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,79 +0,0 @@
-user {{ repo_service_user_name }} {{ repo_service_group_name }};
-pid {{ repo_nginx_pid }};
-
-worker_processes {{ repo_nginx_threads }};
-
-events {
-    worker_connections {{ repo_worker_connections }};
-    multi_accept on;
-}
-
-http {
-    # Basic Settings
-    include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
-    default_type application/octet-stream;
-    sendfile off;
-    tcp_nopush on;
-    tcp_nodelay on;
-    client_header_timeout 10m;
-    client_body_timeout 10m;
-    send_timeout 10m;
-    proxy_read_timeout 600s;
-    proxy_send_timeout 600s;
-    proxy_connect_timeout 600s;
-
-    # Added Larger Post Max
-    client_max_body_size 5M;
-
-    keepalive_timeout 60 15;
-    types_hash_max_size 2048;
-
-    # Logging Settings
-    log_format gzip '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local]  '
-                    '"$request" $status $bytes_sent '
-                    '"$http_referer" "$http_user_agent" "$gzip_ratio"';
-    access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log gzip buffer=32k;
-    error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log notice;
-
-    # Gzip Settings
-    gzip on;
-    gzip_disable "msie6";
-    gzip_vary on;
-    gzip_proxied any;
-    gzip_comp_level 6;
-    gzip_min_length 1100;
-    gzip_buffers 16 8k;
-
-    # Turn on gzip for all content types that should benefit from it.
-    gzip_types application/ecmascript;
-    gzip_types application/javascript;
-    gzip_types application/json;
-    gzip_types application/pdf;
-    gzip_types application/postscript;
-    gzip_types application/x-javascript;
-    gzip_types image/svg+xml;
-    gzip_types text/css;
-    gzip_types text/csv;
-
-    # "gzip_types text/html" is assumed.
-    gzip_types text/javascript;
-    gzip_types text/plain;
-    gzip_types text/xml;
-
-    gzip_http_version 1.0;
-
-    # Custom Header
-    add_header X-WHOAMI "OpenStack Private Slushee Repository {{ inventory_hostname }}";
-
-    # Virtual Host Configs
-    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
-    include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
-
-    # Map Mobile
-    map $http_user_agent $is_mobile {
-      default 0;
-      ~*android|ip(hone|od)|windows\s+(?:ce|phone) 1;
-      ~*symbian|sonyericsson|samsung|lg|blackberry 1;
-      ~*mobile 1;
-    }
-}
diff --git a/templates/openstack-slushee.vhost.j2 b/templates/openstack-slushee.vhost.j2
deleted file mode 100644
index b4850cf..0000000
--- a/templates/openstack-slushee.vhost.j2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-server {
-    listen {{ repo_server_bind_address }}:{{ repo_server_port }};
-    server_name {{ repo_server_name }};
-
-    {% if repo_backend_ssl | bool -%}
-    ssl on;
-    ssl_certificate {{ repo_ssl_cert }};
-    ssl_certificate_key {{ repo_ssl_key }};
-    {% if repo_user_ssl_ca_cert is defined -%}
-    ssl_trusted_certificate {{ repo_ssl_ca_cert }};
-    {% endif -%}
-    {% endif -%}
-
-    # Logging
-    access_log /var/log/nginx/{{ repo_server_name }}.access.log gzip buffer=32k;
-    error_log /var/log/nginx/{{ repo_server_name }}.error.log notice;
-
-    absolute_redirect off;
-
-    location / {
-        root {{ repo_service_home_folder }}/repo/;
-        autoindex on;
-        expires -1;
-    }
-}
diff --git a/templates/openstack_slushee.vhost.j2 b/templates/openstack_slushee.vhost.j2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5cc3257
--- /dev/null
+++ b/templates/openstack_slushee.vhost.j2
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+# {{ ansible_managed }}
+
+Listen {{ repo_server_bind_address }}:{{ repo_server_port }}
+
+<VirtualHost {{ repo_server_bind_address }}:{{ repo_server_port }}>
+    ServerName {{ repo_server_name }}
+    LogLevel  {{ repo_apache_log_level }}
+    ErrorLog  syslog:daemon
+    CustomLog "|/usr/bin/env logger -p daemon.info -t {{ repo_system_service_name }}" {{ repo_apache_custom_log_format }}
+    DocumentRoot {{ repo_service_home_folder }}/repo
+{% if repo_backend_ssl | bool %}
+    SSLEngine on
+    SSLCertificateFile    {{ repo_ssl_cert }}
+    SSLCertificateKeyFile {{ repo_ssl_key }}
+    {% if repo_user_ssl_ca_cert is defined -%}
+    SSLCACertificateFile  {{ repo_ssl_ca_cert }}
+    {% endif -%}
+    SSLCompression Off
+    SSLProtocol {{ repo_ssl_protocol }}
+    SSLHonorCipherOrder On
+    {% if repo_ssl_cipher_suite_tls12 != "" -%}
+    SSLCipherSuite {{ repo_ssl_cipher_suite_tls12 }}
+    {% endif -%}
+    {% if repo_ssl_cipher_suite_tls13 != "" -%}
+    SSLCipherSuite TLSv1.3 {{ repo_ssl_cipher_suite_tls13 }}
+    {% endif -%}
+    SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown
+{% endif %}
+
+    Header set X-WHOAMI "OpenStack Private Slushee Repository {{ inventory_hostname }}"
+
+    <Directory {{ repo_service_home_folder }}/repo>
+      Options +FollowSymlinks +Indexes
+      AllowOverride None
+      AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/json
+      AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript
+      AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
+      AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
+      Require ip {{ (container_networks['management_address']['address'] ~ '/' ~ container_networks['management_address']['netmask']) | ipaddr('subnet') }}
+    </Directory>
+</VirtualHost>
diff --git a/tests/test-repo-server-functional.yml b/tests/test-repo-server-functional.yml
index 64aeaa9..355bee2 100644
--- a/tests/test-repo-server-functional.yml
+++ b/tests/test-repo-server-functional.yml
@@ -17,15 +17,6 @@
   hosts: repo_all
   user: root
   tasks:
-    - name: Check nginx is running
-      shell: "ps auxf | grep nginx"
-      register: ps_auxf_nginx
-      until: ps_auxf_nginx.stdout.find('master process') != -1
-      retries: 5
-      delay: 2
-      tags:
-        - skip_ansible_lint
-
     - name: Check service is available
       uri:
         url: "http://localhost:8181"
diff --git a/vars/debian.yml b/vars/debian.yml
index 1e41a1c..6543683 100644
--- a/vars/debian.yml
+++ b/vars/debian.yml
@@ -15,12 +15,47 @@
 
 systemd_utils_prefix: "/lib/systemd"
 
-repo_nginx_pid: /run/nginx.pid
+_repo_system_service_name: apache2
+
+_repo_vhost_enable_path: "/etc/{{ repo_system_service_name }}/sites-enabled"
+
+_repo_apache_modules:
+  - name: "ssl"
+    state: "present"
+  - name: "mpm_{{ repo_apache_mpm_backend }}"
+    state: "present"
+  - name: "rewrite"
+    state: "present"
+  - name: "headers"
+    state: "present"
+  - name: "deflate"
+    state: "present"
+
+_repo_apache_default_sites:
+  - "{{ repo_vhost_enable_path }}/000-default.conf"
+  - /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/other-vhosts-access-log.conf
+
+_repo_apache_configs:
+  - src: "apache_ports.conf.j2"
+    dest: "/etc/apache2/ports.conf"
+    owner: "root"
+    group: "root"
+  - src: "openstack_slushee.vhost.j2"
+    dest: "/etc/{{ repo_system_service_name }}/sites-available/openstack_slushee.conf"
+    owner: "root"
+    group: "root"
+  - src: "apache_mpm.conf.j2"
+    dest: "/etc/apache2/mods-available/mpm_{{ repo_apache_mpm_backend }}.conf"
+    owner: "root"
+    group: "root"
+
+_repo_apache_conf: "/etc/apache2/apache2.conf"
+_repo_apache_security_conf: "/etc/apache2/conf-available/security.conf"
 
 # NOTE(jrosser) remove this once rsync cleanup tasks are no longer required
 rsyncd_service_name: rsync
 
 repo_server_distro_packages:
   - git
-  - nginx-extras
+  - apache2
   - sudo
diff --git a/vars/redhat.yml b/vars/redhat.yml
index 83c1301..5bade0c 100644
--- a/vars/redhat.yml
+++ b/vars/redhat.yml
@@ -15,12 +15,36 @@
 
 systemd_utils_prefix: "/lib/systemd"
 
-repo_nginx_pid: /run/nginx.pid
+_repo_system_service_name: httpd
+
+_repo_vhost_enable_path: "/etc/{{ repo_system_service_name }}/conf.d"
+
+_repo_apache_default_sites:
+  - "/etc/httpd/conf.d/userdir.conf"
+  - "/etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf"
+
+_repo_apache_configs:
+  - src: "apache_ports.conf.j2"
+    dest: "{{ repo_vhost_enable_path }}/ports.conf"
+    owner: "root"
+    group: "root"
+  - src: "openstack_slushee.vhost.j2"
+    dest: "/etc/{{ repo_system_service_name }}/sites-available/openstack_slushee.conf"
+    owner: "root"
+    group: "root"
+  - src: "apache_mpm.conf.j2"
+    dest: "/etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/mpm_{{ repo_apache_mpm_backend }}.conf"
+    owner: "root"
+    group: "root"
+
+_repo_apache_conf: "/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf"
+_repo_apache_security_conf: "{{ repo_apache_conf }}"
 
 # NOTE(jrosser) remove this when rsyncd cleanup task are no longer required
 rsyncd_service_name: rsyncd
 
 repo_server_distro_packages:
   - git
-  - nginx
+  - httpd
+  - "{{ repo_backend_ssl | ternary('mod_ssl', '') }}"
   - sudo