Ansible Role: Kubernetes Kube-Prometheus

Installs the kube-prometheus project on a Kubernetes cluster.

Requirements

Fully functional existing K8s cluster running K8s 1.22+. Older versions may work, but are untested.

Role Variables

The GoLang install version:. Requires golang 1.17.13 or later.

go_version: 1.20.1

The kube-promethus role defines the following variables:

# Directory to install kube-prometheus. Default is /opt/kube-prometheus
prometheus_bin: "/opt/kube-prometheus"

# Configure nginx ingress controller
config_ingress: "yes"

# Release of kube-prometheus to install
release_tag: v0.12.0

# Release of jb to install
jb_release: release-0.7

# Kubernetes namespace to use for installation of kube-prometheus
kube_namespace: monitoring

Dependencies

This playbook depends on the jedimt.golang role and that an existing Kubernetes cluster is available.

Example Playbook

# ===========================================================================
# Install Kube-Prometheus
# ===========================================================================
- name: Install the Kube-Prometheus project
  hosts: k8s_master
  gather_facts: true
  become: false
  tags: play_prometheus

  roles:
    - { role: jedimt.golang, go_version: 1.20.1 }
    - { role: jedimt.kubernetes_kube_prometheus,
        storage_class: "vmw-block-sc"
    }

License

MIT

Author Information

Aaron Patten aaronpatten@gmail.com