Ansible Role: Kibana

An Ansible Role that installs Kibana on RedHat/CentOS or Debian/Ubuntu.

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

kibana_version: "7.x"

The version of kibana to install.

kibana_package: kibana
kibana_package_state: present

The specific package to be installed. You can specify a version of the package using the correct syntax for your platform and package manager by changing the package name. You can also control the package state (e.g. present, absent, or latest).

kibana_service_state: started
kibana_service_enabled: true

Controls whether the kibana service is started and enabled on system boot.

kibana_config_template: kibana.yml.j2
kibana_config_file_path: /etc/kibana/kibana.yml

The template to use for the Kibana config file, and the path to which the config file will be written.

kibana_server_port: 5601
kibana_server_host: "0.0.0.0"

The FQDN or IP address and port Kibana should use.

kibana_elasticsearch_url: "http://localhost:9200"

The URL (including port) over which Kibana will connect to Elasticsearch.

kibana_elasticsearch_username: ""
kibana_elasticsearch_password: ""

Weather if the kibana server should use ssl and the mandatory path to certificate file and keyfile.

kibana_ssl_enabled: true
kibana_ssl_certificate: "/etc/this/is/your/ssl/certificate"
kibana_ssl_key: "/etc/this/is/your/ssl/keyfile"

If Elasticsearch is protected by HTTP basic authentication, set the username and password so Kibana can connect.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: kibana
  roles:
    - geerlingguy.kibana

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

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