Kibana

Ansible role for Kibana 4.

It installs Kibana from the tarballs available at Kibana's official page by default. The init script was generated using Pleaserun.

It has been developed on Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) but it should work on other Debian systems.

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

Required variables:

• kibana_tarball: Name of the tarball to fetch from kibana_url. Defaults to kibana-4.0.1-linux-x64.tar.gz.
• kibana_tarball_checksum: SHA256 sum of the tarball. It's used to check the validity of the tarball.
• kibana_url: URL from where the tarball will be fetched. Defaults to https://download.elasticsearch.org/kibana/kibana.
• kibana_install_dir: Base path for installation. Defaults to /opt.
• kibana_user: User that will run Kibana. Defaults to kibana.
• kibana_group: Group for the kibana_user. Defaults to kibana.
• kibana_port: Bind port for Kibana. Defaults to 5601.
• kibana_bind: Bind address for Kibana. Defaults to 127.0.0.1.
• kibana_elasticsearch_url: Elasticsearch URL where Kibana will connect. Defaults to http://localhost:9200.
• kibana_request_timeout: Time in milliseconds to wait for responses from Elasticsearch. Must be greater than 0. Defaults to 300000.
• kibana_default_app: The default view for Kibana, e.g., "discover", "visualize", "dashboard". Defaults to "discover".
• kibana_shard_timeout: Time in milliseconds for Elasticsearch to wait for responses from shards. Set to 0 to disable. Defaults to 0.
• kibana_verify_ssl: Set to false to have a complete disregard for the validity of the SSL. Defaults to true.
• kibana_pid: Path for Kibana's PID file, managed by the init script and not by Kibana. The pid_file configuration of Kibana is not changed, since it would conflict with our init script and require mangling with /var/run directory permissions. Defaults to /var/run/kibana.pid.
• kibana_running: Start service after installation and configuration. Defaults to true.

Local facts:

This role installs some local facts for guaranteeing idempotency and also for easier integration with other roles.

• ansible_local.kibana.url: URL from where the currently installed Kibana was fetched from.
• ansible_local.kibana.tarball: Tarball used for the currntly installed Kibana.
• ansible_local.kibana.tarball_checksum: Tarball's checksum used of the currently installed Kibana.
• ansible_local.kibana.install_dir: Base path where Kibana is installed.
• ansible_local.kibana.port: Bind port of the current configuration.
• ansible_local.kibana.bind: Bind address of the current configuration.

Internal variables, avoid changing:

• kibana_download_dir: Directory where the tarball will be downloaded to. Defaults to /tmp.
• kibana_tarball_name: Basename of the kibana_tarball file. Used for getting the extracted dir name. Defaults to "{{ kibana_tarball | replace('.tar.gz', '') }}".

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - { role: mtpereira.kibana }

License

BSD

Author Information

GitHub project page

Manuel Tiago Pereira