Ansible Role: logrotate

This Ansible Role installs and sets up logrotate on RHEL/CentOS, Fedora, and Debian/Ubuntu.

Requirements

No special requirements are needed.

Role Variables

Here are the available variables and their default values (found in defaults/main.yml):

• logrotate_config_files: "{{ logrotate_files_to_copy }}"

  This variable specifies which files you want to copy to the logrotate.d directory.

• logrotate_compress: no

  Set to yes to make logrotate compress rotated files by default.

• logrotate_use_date_extension: yes

  Set to yes to use the date in the file name instead of just numbers.

• logrotate_weeks2keep: 24

  This sets how many weeks you want to keep the rotated logs.

The following variables do not need to be changed for the systems you are targeting (see vars/main.yml):

• logrotate_packages:

  Packages required to install logrotate.

• logrotate_conf:

  Location of the configuration file.

• logrotate_files_to_copy:

  A list of configuration files to be copied, located in the files directory.

Dependencies

There are no dependencies.

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - { role: guidugli.logrotate }

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2020 by Carlos Guidugli.