Ansible Role: Kibana

This is an Ansible Role that installs Kibana on RedHat/CentOS or Debian/Ubuntu systems.

Requirements

No requirements needed.

Role Variables

Here are the available variables along with their default values (see defaults/main.yml):

• kibana_version: "7.x"
  The version of Kibana you want to install.

• kibana_package: kibana
  kibana_package_state: present
  This is the package to be installed. You can change the package name to specify a version according to your system's package manager. You can also set the package state (e.g., present, absent, or latest).

• kibana_service_state: started
  kibana_service_enabled: true
  These settings control if the Kibana service is started and if it will start automatically when the system boots.

• kibana_config_template: kibana.yml.j2
  kibana_config_file_path: /etc/kibana/kibana.yml
  This is the template for the Kibana configuration file and the path where the configuration file will be saved.

• kibana_server_port: 5601
  kibana_server_host: "0.0.0.0"
  The Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) or IP address and port that Kibana should use.

• kibana_elasticsearch_url: "http://localhost:9200"
  This is the URL (with the port) that Kibana will use to connect to Elasticsearch.

• kibana_elasticsearch_username: ""
  kibana_elasticsearch_password: ""
  If Elasticsearch requires a username and password for HTTP basic authentication, set them here so Kibana can connect.

Dependencies

No dependencies needed.

Example Playbook

- hosts: kibana
  roles:
    - geerlingguy.kibana

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2014 by Jeff Geerling, the author of Ansible for DevOps.