jsmartin.influxdb

InfluxDB

This is currently a hacked up fork of Ross McDonald's role for the explicit use with the Ansible lightbulb repo's workshop solutions. This was done to avoid future unexpected breaking changes made by the underlying software that are really annoying to deal with.

An Ansible role to install, configure, and manage InfluxDB (a time-series database) v0.9 instances.

This role was forked from a role by Ross McDonald.

Requirements

Prior knowledge/experience with InfluxDB is highly recommended. Full documentation is available here.

Installation

Either clone this repository, or install through Ansible Galaxy directly using the command:

ansible-galaxy install tima.influxdb

Role Variables

The high-level variables are stored in the defaults/main.yml file. The most important ones being:

# Channel of InfluxDB to install (stable, unstable, nightly)
influxdb_install_version: stable

# If multiple servers are specified, whether to create a clustered configuration
# NOTE:
#   - Do not attempt to cluster previously-unclustered servers. This can lead to data loss.
#   - This will overwrite your /etc/default/influxdb file (though it makes a backup)
influxdb_cluster_servers: no
# When clustering is enabled, whether or not to overwrite the /etc/hosts file with raw
# IPs (may be useful if no DNS resolution).
influxdb_overwrite_hosts_file: yes

More advanced configuration options are stored in the defaults/main.yml file, which includes all of the necessary bells and whistles to tweak your configuration. The entire InfluxDB configuration defaults are set using the defaults/main.yml file. You may override these via inventory vars, playbook vars, or extra vars.