influxdb

Installs and configures open source InfluxDB.

Requirements

None

Role Variables

Defaults

• See the defaults

influxdb_version

• The version of InfluxDB to install. Default: 1.6.0

influxdb_config_file

• The full path to the influxdb.conf. Default: /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf

influxdb_error_log_file

• The full path to the stderr log file. Default: /var/log/influxdb/influxd-error.log

influxdb_stdout_log_file

• The full path to the stdout log file. Default: /var/log/influxdb/influxd-stdout.log

influxdb_service

• The service name for influxdb. Default: influxdb

influxdb_startup_config_file

• The full path to the startup config file. Default: /etc/default/influxdb

influxdb_log_owner

• The default user that has write access to the stdout and stderr logs. Default. influxdb

influxdb_log_group

• The default group that has write access to the stdout and stderr logs. Default: influxdb

influxdb_conf

• A dictionary hash for influxdb.conf settings, where a section is a dictionary key.

influxdb_config:
  global:
    'bind-address': '"127.0.0.1:8088"'

• That would create a section called global with the value "127.0.0.1:8088".
• NOTE: Any value that requires quotes like above should always look like this.
• You can find the rest of the settings and what they mean on the InfluxDBdocs

influxdb_yum_repo

• A hash of keys for configuring the internal/external yum repo for installing InfluxDB via a yum
• The default is:

influxdb_yum_repo:
  state: present
  enabled: true
  baseurl: 'https://repos.influxdata.com/rhel/$releasever/$basearch/stable'
  gpgcheck: true
  gpgkey: 'https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdb.key'

manage_install

• When true Ansible will attempt to install InfluxDB via the configured package manager. Default: true

manage_repos

• When true Ansible will attempt to install/configure the InfluxDB repository for the supported OS. Default: true

manage_service

• When true Ansible will attempt to manage/configure the InfluxDB service. Default: true

Example Playbook

• Installs, configures, and starts the influxdb service using all the defaults.

    - hosts: servers
      roles:
         - role: codylane.influxdb

Example playbook with customized defaults (RHEL) only.

    - hosts: servers
      roles:
         - role: codylane.influxdb
           influxdb_yum_repo:
             state: present
             enabled: true
             baseurl: 'https://myspecial.snowflake.repo/influxdb/$releasever/$basearch/stable'
             gpgcheck: false
             gpgkey: 'https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdb.key'

License

MIT

Author Information

• Cody Lane