Ansible Role: Kibana

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

Requirements

No special requirements.

Role Variables

Here are the available settings you can change, along with their default values (see defaults/main.yml):

• kibana_version: "6.x"
  The version of Kibana you want to install.

• kibana_package: kibana
  The specific package to install. You can specify a version if needed.

• kibana_package_state: present
  Defines the state of the package (e.g., installed, not installed, or latest).

• kibana_service_state: started
  Controls if the Kibana service should be started.

• kibana_service_enabled: true
  Determines if Kibana should start automatically when the system boots.

• kibana_config_template: kibana.yml.j2
  The template file used to create the Kibana configuration.

• kibana_config_file_path: /etc/kibana/kibana.yml
  The location where the Kibana configuration file will be saved.

• kibana_server_port: 5601
  The port that Kibana will use.

• kibana_server_host: "0.0.0.0"
  The IP address or hostname for Kibana to listen on.

• kibana_elasticsearch_url: "http://localhost:9200"
  The URL for Kibana to connect to Elasticsearch.

• kibana_elasticsearch_username: ""
  The username for Elasticsearch if basic authentication is enabled.

• kibana_elasticsearch_password: ""
  The password for Elasticsearch if basic authentication is enabled.

Dependencies

No additional dependencies required.

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.