Logrotate

An ansible role to install and configure Logrotate in a Ubuntu machine

Requirements

None

Role Variables

name: The name of the logrotate config file

paths: A list of log paths that will be managed by the logrotate config

paths:
  - "/foo/bar/test.log"
  - "/foo/bar/dev.log"

frequency: The frequency the log will be rotated. Possible values: daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly.

minsize: Log files are rotated when they grow bigger than size bytes, but not before the additionally specified time interval (daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly)

minsize: 100M

maxsize: Log files are rotated when they grow bigger than size bytes even before the additionally specified time interval (daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly)

maxsize: 1G

rotate: Log files are rotated count times before being removed or mailed rotate: 7

extra_scripts: Extra scripts or config that are not included in the default options of this role

extra_scripts: |
  create 644 user group
  postrotate
    <some scripts here>
  endscript

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

- name: Example logrotate
  hosts: all
  roles:
    - role: jobscore.logrotate
  vars:
    logrotate_config:
      - name: Rails logrotate
        paths:
          - "/var/log/rails.log"
        frequency: daily
        minsize: 100M
        rotate: 7
        extra_scripts: |
          create 644 app app
          sharedscripts
          postrotate
            echo "Hello"
          endscript

License

GPLv3

Author Information

Glauber Batista