elan.monitoring_grafana

Ansible Role for Grafana

Install the latest grafana version with ansible.

Role Variables

You can provide your own configuration file as a template. The role installs the default configuration, which you will likely want to extend or change. The few options you can set through the role can be found in the defaults. To pass your own configuration file, specify the path to the jinja template in the variable grafana_config_template.

Example Playbook

Just add the role to your playbook:

- hosts: all
  become: true
  roles:
    - role: elan.monitoring_grafana
      grafana_config_template: 'custom_templates/grafana.ini.j2'

Development

For development and testing you can use molecule. With podman as driver you can install it like this – preferably in a virtual environment (if you use docker, substitute podman with docker):

pip install -r .dev_requirements.txt

Then you can create the test instances, apply the ansible config (converge) and destroy the test instances with these commands:

molecule create
molecule converge
molecule destroy

If you want to inspect a running test instance use molecule login --host <instance_name>, where you replace <instance_name> with the desired value.