Metabase provisioning role

This is an Ansible role for provisioning Metabase, an open-source tool for Business Intelligence and analytics.

See the latest Metabase docs here.

Requirements

You'll need to install Java OpenJDK version 8 or higher. It's been intentionally left out of the requirements in meta/main.yml so you can install it via whatever role you want, instead of enforcing a specific installation method.

Defaults

Check out all the defaults here.

Setup

By default Metabase uses an embedded H2 database. For a production environment you should use your own. This role defaults to using Postgresql, but any can be used. If you want to skip that step and use the built-in embedded H2 database, just define: use_own_database: false

Note: this database is for storing Metabase's own application data and settings, not the database to be analyzed.

If you roll your own, the database will have to be created before running this role, and you can override the following variables:

metabase_db: metabase
metabase_db_type: postgres
metabase_db_host: localhost
metabase_db_port: 5432
metabase_db_user: metabase
metabase_db_pass: changeme

This role will also set up the initial admin user for Metabase. You can override these variables (or use the defaults for testing):

metabase_admin:
  first_name: Metabase
  last_name: Admin
  email: [email protected]
  password: metabase123

Configuring datasets

Metabase comes with a sample dataset, but if you have your data ready you can optionally pass in a list of databases to add during installation, in this format:

metabase_databases:
  - name: Business Data
    engine: postgres
    dbname: analyze-me
    host: localhost
    port: 5432
    user: postgres
    password: changeme
    ssl: false

Note: these can be configured or changed later within the app, so it's not essential.

Example playbook

- name: Provision Metabase
  hosts: webservers

  roles:
    - role: libre_ops.metabase

You can also use this role to install Metabase on your local machine, for example:

- name: Install Metabase Locally
  hosts: 127.0.0.1
  connection: local

  roles:
    - role: libre_ops.metabase
      vars: 
        use_own_database: false