Ansible Role: InfluxDB

Ansible role to deploy InfluxDB server on CentOS/RHEL systems

Requirements

No special requirements. Note this role requires root access; either run it in a playbook with a global become: yes or invoke the role in your playbook:

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - role: jwflory.influxdb
      become: yes

Role Variables

db_fqdn: example.com
http:
  enabled: "true"
  bind_address: ":8086"
  auth_enabled: "true"
  https_enabled: "true"
  https_certificate: "/usr/lib/influxdb/tls/{{ db_fqdn }}/fullchain.pem"
  https_private_key: "/usr/lib/influxdb/tls/{{ db_fqdn }}/privkey.pem"

• db_fqdn: Hostname/FQDN of InfluxDB server
• http.enabled: Whether to enable HTTP gateway to InfluxDB server (default: true)
• http.bind_address: Specify bind address for host (default :8086, runs on 0.0.0.0)
• http.auth_enabled: Is authentication required to connect to DB? You should have a good reason for turning this off if so. (default: true)
• http.https_certificate: Path to HTTPS certificate
• http.https_private_key: Path to HTTPS private key

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: influx_server
  roles:
     - role: jwflory.influxdb

License

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Author(s) accept changes made in vars/ directory to be omitted in published derivative work. Modifications to other aspects of the Ansible Role, that others could also benefit from, are expected to be open.

Author Information

This role was created in 2019 by Justin W. Flory. Find him on GitHub and LinkedIn.