diff --git a/defaults/main.yml b/defaults/main.yml
index 3ed206e6..2239e13d 100644
--- a/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/defaults/main.yml
@@ -180,20 +180,13 @@ keystone_service_adminuri: "{{ keystone_service_adminuri_proto }}://{{ internal_
 ## Set this value to override the "public_endpoint" keystone.conf variable
 #keystone_public_endpoint: "{{ keystone_service_publicuri }}"
 
-# This is the web server that will handle all requests and will act as a
+# Apache web server will handle all requests and will act as a
 # reverse proxy to uWSGI. If internal TLS/SSL certificates are configured,
 # they are implemented in this web server's configuration. Using a web server
 # for endpoints is far better for scale and allows the use of additional
 # modules to improve performance or security, leaving uWSGI to only have
 # to be used for running the service.
 #
-# Note:
-# The default is nginx, but apache will be used if Keystone is configured
-# as a Federated Service provider.
-# TODO (odyssey4me): Convert the SP implementation to use nginx instead
-# so that we do not have to be concerned with multiple web servers.
-#
-keystone_web_server: "{{ (keystone_sp != {}) | ternary('apache', 'nginx') }}"
 keystone_web_server_bind_address: "{{ openstack_service_bind_address | default('0.0.0.0') }}"
 
 ## security.txt
@@ -216,26 +209,15 @@ keystone_apache_serversignature: "Off"
 
 ## Apache MPM tunables
 keystone_httpd_mpm_backend: event
+keystone_httpd_mpm_server_limit: "{{ keystone_wsgi_processes }}"
 keystone_httpd_mpm_start_servers: 2
 keystone_httpd_mpm_min_spare_threads: 25
 keystone_httpd_mpm_max_spare_threads: 75
 keystone_httpd_mpm_thread_limit: 64
 keystone_httpd_mpm_thread_child: 25
-keystone_httpd_mpm_max_requests: 150
+keystone_httpd_mpm_max_requests: "{{ keystone_httpd_mpm_server_limit * keystone_httpd_mpm_thread_child }}"
 keystone_httpd_mpm_max_conn_child: 0
 
-## Centos NGINX repository options
-keystone_centos_nginx_mirror: "{{ centos_nginx_mirror | default('http://nginx.org/packages/centos/7/$basearch/') }}"
-keystone_centos_nginx_key: "{{ centos_nginx_key | default('http://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key') }}"
-
-## Nginx setup
-keystone_nginx_access_log_format_combined: '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" $status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" "$http_user_agent"'
-keystone_nginx_access_log_format_extras: '$request_time $upstream_response_time'
-keystone_nginx_ports:
-  keystone-wsgi-public: "{{ keystone_service_port }}"
-keystone_nginx_extra_conf:
-  - keepalive_timeout   70;
-
 ## uWSGI setup
 keystone_wsgi_threads: 1
 ## Cap the maximun number of processes when a user value is unspecified.
@@ -255,7 +237,7 @@ keystone_ssl: false
 keystone_ssl_cert: /etc/ssl/certs/keystone.pem
 keystone_ssl_key: /etc/ssl/private/keystone.key
 keystone_ssl_ca_cert: /etc/ssl/certs/keystone-ca.pem
-keystone_ssl_protocol: "{{ (keystone_web_server == 'nginx') | ternary('TLSv1.2', 'ALL -SSLv2 -SSLv3 -TLSv1.0 -TLSv1.1') }}"
+keystone_ssl_protocol: "ALL -SSLv2 -SSLv3 -TLSv1.0 -TLSv1.1"
 keystone_ssl_cipher_suite: "{{ ssl_cipher_suite | default('ECDH+AESGCM:DH+AESGCM:ECDH+AES256:DH+AES256:ECDH+AES128:DH+AES:RSA+AESGCM:RSA+AES:!aNULL:!MD5:!DSS') }}"
 
 # if using a self-signed certificate, set this to true to regenerate it
diff --git a/files/nginx.conf b/files/nginx.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index ca04a5ec..00000000
--- a/files/nginx.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-user nginx nginx;
-worker_processes 1;
-
-error_log /var/log/nginx/error_log info;
-
-events {
-  worker_connections 1024;
-  use epoll;
-}
-
-http {
-  include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
-  default_type application/octet-stream;
-
-  log_format main
-    '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] '
-    '"$request" $status $bytes_sent '
-    '"$http_referer" "$http_user_agent" '
-    '"$gzip_ratio"';
-
-  client_header_timeout 10m;
-  client_body_timeout 10m;
-  send_timeout 10m;
-
-  connection_pool_size 256;
-  client_header_buffer_size 1k;
-  large_client_header_buffers 4 2k;
-  request_pool_size 4k;
-
-  gzip off;
-
-  output_buffers 1 32k;
-  postpone_output 1460;
-
-  sendfile on;
-  tcp_nopush on;
-  tcp_nodelay on;
-
-  keepalive_timeout 75 20;
-
-  ignore_invalid_headers on;
-  include /etc/nginx/sites-available/*.conf;
-}
diff --git a/handlers/main.yml b/handlers/main.yml
index 44f14ac5..57a4adb0 100644
--- a/handlers/main.yml
+++ b/handlers/main.yml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 
 - name: Restart web server
   service:
-    name: "{{ (keystone_web_server == 'apache') | ternary(keystone_system_service_name, 'nginx') }}"
+    name: "{{ keystone_system_service_name }}"
     enabled: yes
     state: restarted
     daemon_reload: "{{ (ansible_facts['service_mgr'] == 'systemd') | ternary('yes', omit) }}"
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/keystone_drop_nginx-5e7791d22f0be48a.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/keystone_drop_nginx-5e7791d22f0be48a.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e5413484
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/keystone_drop_nginx-5e7791d22f0be48a.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+---
+deprecations:
+  - |
+    We removed multiple web server support for keystone and left only Apache
+    since nginx is missing features required for federation setup.
+    With this change following variables are deprecated and have no effect:
+
+      * keystone_web_server
+      * keystone_centos_nginx_mirror
+      * keystone_centos_nginx_key
+      * keystone_nginx_access_log_format_combined
+      * keystone_nginx_access_log_format_extras
+      * keystone_nginx_ports
+      * keystone_nginx_extra_conf
+
+    Nginx web server will be removed and replaced with Apache during upgrade.
diff --git a/tasks/keystone_install.yml b/tasks/keystone_install.yml
index 98de9608..ef9f043f 100644
--- a/tasks/keystone_install.yml
+++ b/tasks/keystone_install.yml
@@ -47,48 +47,45 @@
     - ansible_facts['pkg_mgr'] == 'dnf'
     - keystone_sp != {}
 
-- name: Add NGINX repository keys
-  rpm_key:
-    key: "{{ keystone_centos_nginx_key }}"
-    state: present
-  when:
-    - ansible_facts['pkg_mgr'] == 'dnf'
-    - keystone_web_server == 'nginx'
-  register: add_nginx_key
-  until: add_nginx_key is success
-  retries: 5
-  delay: 2
+# TODO(noonedeadpunk): Remove nginx-related changes in Y release
+- name: Remove nginx keystone vhost configuration
+  file:
+    path: "/etc/nginx/{{ (ansible_facts['os_family'] | lower == 'debian') | ternary('sites-available', 'conf.d') }}/{{ item }}.conf"
+    state: absent
+  with_items: "{{ keystone_services.keys() | list }}"
+  register: nginx_vhosts
 
-- name: Add NGINX repository
-  yum_repository:
-    name: nginx
-    description: 'nginx repo'
-    baseurl: "{{ keystone_centos_nginx_mirror }}"
-  when:
-    - ansible_facts['pkg_mgr'] == 'dnf'
-    - keystone_web_server == 'nginx'
-  register: add_nginx_repo
-  until: add_nginx_repo is success
-  retries: 5
-  delay: 2
+- name: Remove nginx symlink for vhost configuration
+  file:
+    path: /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/{{ item }}.conf
+    state: absent
+  with_items: "{{ keystone_services.keys() | list }}"
+  when: ansible_facts['os_family'] == "Debian"
+
+- name: Reload nginx if needed
+  service:
+    name: "nginx"
+    state: restarted
+  failed_when: false
+  when: nginx_vhosts is changed
 
 # If the web server being removed was never installed, this task will fail when trying
 # to stop/disable it. The task is therefore set to never fail.
-- name: Ensure other web server is not running/enabled
-  service:
-    name: "{{ (keystone_web_server == 'nginx') | ternary(keystone_system_service_name, 'nginx') }}"
-    enabled: no
-    state: stopped
-    daemon_reload: "yes"
-  failed_when: false
+- name: Remove nginx web server
+  when: "('repo_all' in groups and inventory_hostname not in groups['repo_all']) or ('repo_all' not in groups)"
+  block:
+    - name: Ensure nginx web server is not running/enabled
+      service:
+        name: "nginx"
+        enabled: no
+        state: stopped
+      failed_when: false
 
-- name: Remove other web server distro packages and mod_wsgi
-  package:
-    name: "{{ (keystone_web_server == 'nginx') | ternary(keystone_apache_distro_packages, keystone_nginx_distro_packages) }}"
-    state: absent
-    autoremove: "{{ (ansible_facts['pkg_mgr'] == 'apt') | ternary('yes', omit) }}"
-  when: "(is_metal is undefined) or
-         not (is_metal | bool)"
+    - name: Remove nginx server distro packages
+      package:
+        name: "nginx"
+        state: absent
+        autoremove: "{{ (ansible_facts['pkg_mgr'] == 'apt') | ternary('yes', omit) }}"
 
 - name: Install distro packages
   package:
diff --git a/tasks/keystone_nginx.yml b/tasks/keystone_nginx.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 5d00877f..00000000
--- a/tasks/keystone_nginx.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,95 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright 2016, Rackspace US, Inc.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-- name: Ensure Apache is not running
-  service:
-    name: "{{ keystone_system_service_name }}"
-    state: stopped
-  failed_when: false
-  when: ('horizon_all' in groups and inventory_hostname not in groups['horizon_all']) or ('horizon_all' not in groups)
-
-- name: Disable default configuration
-  file:
-    path: /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
-    state: absent
-  notify:
-    - Manage LB
-    - Restart web server
-
-- name: Remove default nginx config
-  file:
-    path: /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
-    state: absent
-  notify:
-    - Manage LB
-    - Restart web server
-
-- name: Ensure configuration directories exist
-  file:
-    path: "{{ item }}"
-    state: directory
-  with_items:
-    - "/etc/nginx/{{ keystone_nginx_conf_path }}"
-    - "/etc/nginx/conf.d"
-
-- name: Configure custom nginx log format
-  copy:
-    # NOTE(odyssey4me):
-    # To cater for the situation where there are no containers, or
-    # nginx is shared in some way, it's better to add custom directives
-    # for nginx.conf into a conf.d file. That way it's never overwritten.
-    content: |
-      # Ansible managed
-      log_format custom '{{ keystone_nginx_access_log_format_combined }} {{ keystone_nginx_access_log_format_extras }}';
-    dest: "/etc/nginx/conf.d/custom_log.conf"
-  notify:
-    - Manage LB
-    - Restart web server
-
-# Configure app
-- name: Configure virtual hosts
-  template:
-    src: keystone_nginx.conf.j2
-    dest: "/etc/nginx/{{ keystone_nginx_conf_path }}/{{ item }}.conf"
-  with_items: "{{ keystone_services.keys() | list }}"
-  notify:
-    - Manage LB
-    - Restart web server
-
-- name: Link to enable virtual hosts
-  file:
-    src: "/etc/nginx/sites-available/{{ item }}.conf"
-    path: "/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/{{ item }}.conf"
-    state: link
-  with_items: "{{ keystone_services.keys() | list }}"
-  when: ansible_facts['os_family'] == "Debian"
-  notify:
-    - Manage LB
-    - Restart web server
-
-- name: Ensure nginx does not listen on 80 port
-  replace:
-    path: /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
-    regexp: "{{ item.regexp }}"
-    replace: "{{ item.replace }}"
-    validate: nginx -t -c %s
-  with_items:
-    - regexp: '(\s+listen\s+)[\[,\],:]+80'
-      replace: '\1 [::1]:8008'
-    - regexp: '(\s+listen\s+)80'
-      replace: '\1 127.0.0.1:8008'
-  notify:
-    - Manage LB
-    - Restart web server
diff --git a/tasks/main.yml b/tasks/main.yml
index 04102c97..97a955b0 100644
--- a/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/tasks/main.yml
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@
   tags:
     - keystone-config
 
-- import_tasks: "keystone_{{ keystone_web_server }}.yml"
+- import_tasks: "keystone_apache.yml"
   tags:
     - keystone-config
 
diff --git a/templates/keystone-httpd-mpm.conf.j2 b/templates/keystone-httpd-mpm.conf.j2
index 925b1fbb..17ba32de 100644
--- a/templates/keystone-httpd-mpm.conf.j2
+++ b/templates/keystone-httpd-mpm.conf.j2
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 <IfModule mpm_{{ keystone_httpd_mpm_backend }}_module>
+        ServerLimit              {{ keystone_httpd_mpm_server_limit }}
         StartServers             {{ keystone_httpd_mpm_start_servers }}
         MinSpareThreads          {{ keystone_httpd_mpm_min_spare_threads }}
         MaxSpareThreads          {{ keystone_httpd_mpm_max_spare_threads }}
diff --git a/templates/keystone-httpd.conf.j2 b/templates/keystone-httpd.conf.j2
index 75f65e29..b2efc645 100644
--- a/templates/keystone-httpd.conf.j2
+++ b/templates/keystone-httpd.conf.j2
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # {{ ansible_managed }}
 
-Listen {{ keystone_service_port }}
+Listen {{ keystone_web_server_bind_address }}:{{ keystone_service_port }}
 <VirtualHost {{ keystone_web_server_bind_address }}:{{ keystone_service_port }}>
 
     <IfVersion >= 2.4>
diff --git a/templates/keystone_nginx.conf.j2 b/templates/keystone_nginx.conf.j2
deleted file mode 100644
index daa12392..00000000
--- a/templates/keystone_nginx.conf.j2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-# {{ ansible_managed }}
-server {
-
-    listen {{ keystone_web_server_bind_address }}:{{ keystone_nginx_ports[item] }};
-
-    {% if keystone_ssl | bool and keystone_service_adminuri_proto == "https" %}
-    ssl                     on;
-    ssl_protocols           {{ keystone_ssl_protocol }};
-    ssl_certificate         {{ keystone_ssl_cert }};
-    ssl_certificate_key     {{ keystone_ssl_key }};
-    ssl_trusted_certificate {{ keystone_ssl_ca_cert }};
-    ssl_ciphers             {{ keystone_ssl_cipher_suite }};
-    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
-    ssl_session_cache   shared:SSL:2m;
-    ssl_session_timeout 2m;
-    {%- endif %}
-
-    {% for line in keystone_nginx_extra_conf %}
-    {{ line }}
-    {%- endfor %}
-
-    error_log   syslog:server=unix:/dev/log;
-    access_log  syslog:server=unix:/dev/log;
-
-    add_header X-Content-Type-Options nosniff;
-    add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
-    add_header Content-Security-Policy "default-src 'self' https: wss:;";
-    add_header X-Frame-Options {{ keystone_x_frame_options | default ('DENY') }};
-
-    real_ip_header   X-Forwarded-For;
-    {% for ip in keystone_set_real_ip_from %}
-    set_real_ip_from {{ ip }};
-    {%- endfor %}
-
-    {% if keystone_security_txt_content is defined %}
-    location /security.txt {
-        alias {{ keystone_security_txt_dir }}/security.txt;
-    }
-
-    location /.well-known/security.txt {
-        alias {{ keystone_security_txt_dir }}/security.txt;
-    }
-    {%- endif %}
-
-    location / {
-        try_files   $uri @yourapplication;
-    }
-
-    location @yourapplication {
-        include     /etc/nginx/uwsgi_params;
-        uwsgi_pass  127.0.0.1:{{ keystone_uwsgi_ports[item]['socket'] }};
-        uwsgi_param SCRIPT_NAME '';
-{% for header in keystone_extra_headers %}
-        add_header "{{ header['parameter'] }}" "{{ header['value'] }}";
-{% endfor %}
-    }
-}
diff --git a/vars/debian.yml b/vars/debian.yml
index 7da9488f..d43e1e07 100644
--- a/vars/debian.yml
+++ b/vars/debian.yml
@@ -48,9 +48,6 @@ keystone_apache_distro_packages:
   - apache2-utils
   - libapache2-mod-proxy-uwsgi
 
-keystone_nginx_distro_packages:
-  - nginx-extras
-
 keystone_idp_distro_packages:
   - ssl-cert
   - xmlsec1
@@ -99,8 +96,6 @@ keystone_apache_modules:
 #  - name: "mod_journald"
 #    state: "present
 
-keystone_nginx_conf_path: "sites-available"
-
 keystone_system_service_name: apache2
 
 keystone_uwsgi_bin: '/usr/bin'
diff --git a/vars/distro_install.yml b/vars/distro_install.yml
index 9170ee1b..11f47945 100644
--- a/vars/distro_install.yml
+++ b/vars/distro_install.yml
@@ -19,14 +19,9 @@
 # enabled.
 #
 keystone_package_list: |-
-  {% set packages = keystone_distro_packages %}
-  {% if keystone_web_server == 'apache' %}
-  {%   set _ = packages.extend(keystone_apache_distro_packages) %}
-  {%   if keystone_idp != {} %}
-  {%     set _ = packages.extend(keystone_idp_distro_packages) %}
-  {%   endif %}
-  {% else %}
-  {%   set _ = packages.extend(keystone_nginx_distro_packages) %}
+  {% set packages = keystone_distro_packages + keystone_apache_distro_packages %}
+  {% if keystone_idp != {} %}
+  {%   set _ = packages.extend(keystone_idp_distro_packages) %}
   {% endif %}
   {% if keystone_oslomsg_amqp1_enabled | bool %}
   {%   set _ = packages.extend(keystone_oslomsg_amqp1_distro_packages) %}
diff --git a/vars/redhat.yml b/vars/redhat.yml
index bcda4b00..6461b95d 100644
--- a/vars/redhat.yml
+++ b/vars/redhat.yml
@@ -43,9 +43,6 @@ keystone_apache_distro_packages:
   - httpd-tools
   - mod_ssl
 
-keystone_nginx_distro_packages:
-  - nginx
-
 keystone_idp_distro_packages:
   - xmlsec1
 
@@ -79,8 +76,6 @@ keystone_apache_configs:
   - { src: "keystone-httpd.conf.j2", dest: "/etc/httpd/conf.d/keystone-httpd.conf" }
   - { src: "keystone-httpd-mpm.conf.j2", dest: "/etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/mpm_{{ keystone_httpd_mpm_backend }}.conf" }
 
-keystone_nginx_conf_path: "conf.d"
-
 keystone_system_service_name: httpd
 
 keystone_uwsgi_bin: '/usr/sbin'
diff --git a/vars/source_install.yml b/vars/source_install.yml
index 2bab1adf..4795e8aa 100644
--- a/vars/source_install.yml
+++ b/vars/source_install.yml
@@ -19,14 +19,9 @@
 # enabled.
 #
 keystone_package_list: |-
-  {% set packages = keystone_distro_packages %}
-  {% if keystone_web_server == 'apache' %}
-  {%   set _ = packages.extend(keystone_apache_distro_packages) %}
-  {%   if keystone_idp != {} %}
-  {%     set _ = packages.extend(keystone_idp_distro_packages) %}
-  {%   endif %}
-  {% else %}
-  {%   set _ = packages.extend(keystone_nginx_distro_packages) %}
+  {% set packages = keystone_distro_packages + keystone_apache_distro_packages %}
+  {% if keystone_idp != {} %}
+  {%   set _ = packages.extend(keystone_idp_distro_packages) %}
   {% endif %}
   {% if keystone_oslomsg_amqp1_enabled | bool %}
   {%   set _ = packages.extend(keystone_oslomsg_amqp1_distro_packages) %}
diff --git a/vars/ubuntu-18.04.yml b/vars/ubuntu-18.04.yml
index b8887cf8..8c0524a4 100644
--- a/vars/ubuntu-18.04.yml
+++ b/vars/ubuntu-18.04.yml
@@ -48,9 +48,6 @@ keystone_apache_distro_packages:
   - apache2-utils
   - libapache2-mod-proxy-uwsgi
 
-keystone_nginx_distro_packages:
-  - nginx-extras
-
 keystone_idp_distro_packages:
   - ssl-cert
   - xmlsec1
@@ -99,8 +96,6 @@ keystone_apache_modules:
 #  - name: "mod_journald"
 #    state: "present
 
-keystone_nginx_conf_path: "sites-available"
-
 keystone_system_service_name: apache2
 
 keystone_uwsgi_bin: '/usr/bin'