Dynatrace-Agent-Ansible

This Ansible role installs and configures the Agent of the Dynatrace AppMon solution.

Note: this role merely makes the Dynatrace Agent available, but it does not configure your application to actually load any. See the Dynatrace-Java-Agent-Ansible role for an example that does.

Download

The role is available via:

• Ansible Galaxy
• GitHub

Description

This role downloads and installs the most recent version of the Dynatrace AppMon Agent from http://downloads.dynatracesaas.com. Alternatively, you can place the installer artifact as dynatrace-agent-linux-x86.jar in the role's files directory from where it will be picked up during the installation. The default file name and URL can be overridden via the dynatrace_agent_linux_installer_file_name and dynatrace_agent_linux_installer_file_url attributes, respectively. Please refer to defaults/main.yml for a list of supported attributes.

Role Variables

As defined in defaults/main.yml:

Name	Default	Description
dynatrace_agent_linux_install_dir	/opt	The Dynatrace Agent will be installed into the directory $dynatrace_agent_linux_install_dir/dynatrace-$major-$minor-$rev, where $major, $minor and $rev are given by the installer. A symbolic link to the actual installation directory will be created in $dynatrace_agent_linux_install_dir/dynatrace.
dynatrace_agent_linux_installer_file_name	dynatrace-agent-7.0.0.2469-unix.jar	The file name of the Dynatrace Agent installer in the role's files directory.
dynatrace_agent_linux_installer_file_url	https://files.dynatrace.com/downloads/OnPrem/dynaTrace/7.0/7.0.0.2469/dynatrace-agent-7.0.0.2469-unix.jar	A HTTP, HTTPS or FTP URL to the Dynatrace Agent installer in the form (http|https|ftp)://[user[:pass]]@host.domain[:port]/path.
dynatrace_agent_owner	dynatrace	The system user that owns the Dynatrace installation.
dynatrace_agent_group	dynatrace	The system user's group that owns the Dynatrace installation.
dynatrace_agent_role_name	Dynatrace.Dynatrace-Agent	The actual name of this role in an Ansible Playbook's roles directory.

Example Playbook

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - role: Dynatrace.Dynatrace-Agent

Testing

We use Test Kitchen to automatically test our automated deployments with Serverspec and RSpec:

1. Install Test Kitchen and its dependencies from within the project's directory:

gem install bundler
bundle install

2. Run all tests

kitchen test

By default, we run our tests inside Docker containers as this considerably speeds up testing time (see .kitchen.yml).

Additional Resources

Blogs

• How to Automate Enterprise Application Monitoring with Ansible
• How to Automate Enterprise Application Monitoring with Ansible - Part II

Presentations

• Automated Deployments (of Dynatrace) with Ansible
• Test-Driven Infrastructure with Ansible, Test Kitchen, Serverspec and RSpec

Problems? Questions? Suggestions?

This offering is Dynatrace Community Supported. Feel free to share any problems, questions and suggestions with your peers on the Dynatrace Community's Application Monitoring & UEM Forum.

License

Licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.