Grafana

Ansible role to setup Grafana.

Tests

Family	Distribution	Version	Test Status
Debian	Debian	Jessie
Debian	Debian	Wheezy
Debian	Ubuntu	Xenial
Debian	Ubuntu	Trusty
Debian	Ubuntu	Precise
Debian	Ubuntu	Vivid

Requirements

• ansible >= 1.9.6

Role Variables

• grafana_admin_password: password for the Grafana administrator account.
• grafana_admin_user: user name for the Grafana administrator account.
• grafana_apt_dependencies: packages needed to be able to run this playbook or install Grafana.
• grafana_conf_file: the file that will contain Grafana's configuration.
• grafana_conf_data: the contents of Grafana's configuration file.
• grafana_default: the contents of Grafana's init script environment.
• grafana_dir_conf: the directory where the Grafana configuration file will be stored.
• grafana_dir_data: the directory where the Grafana data will be stored.
• grafana_dir_home: the Grafana home directory.
• grafana_dir_log: the directory where the Grafana log files will be stored.
• grafana_dir_plugins: the directory where the Grafana plugins will be stored.
• grafana_http_port: the port where the Grafana service will be running.
• grafana_group: the Grafana group.
• grafana_pid_file_dir: directory where PID file will be written to.
• grafana_pid_file: path to PID file.
• grafana_user: the Grafana user.

Unless stated otherwise a default value is provided for each of the variables mentioned above in the defaults directory.

Dependencies

None.

Playbooks

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - role: ansiblebit.grafana

Tags

• configuration: configuration tasks.
• debug: task to debug role variables.
• installation: installation tasks.
• validation: task to validate role variables.

Test

To run the tests you will need to install:

• tox
• vagrant

To run all tests against all pre-defined OS/distributions * ansible versions:

$ tox

To run tests for trusty64:

$ cd tests
$ bash test_idempotence.sh --box trusty64.vagrant.dev
# log file will be stores under tests/log

To perform debugging on a specific environment:

$ cd tests
$ vagrant up trusty64.vagrant.dev

# to provision using the test.yml playbook (as many time as you need)
$ vagrant provision trusty64.vagrant.dev

# to access the Vagrant box
$ vagrant ssh trusty64.vagrant.dev

Links

• Grafana : Installing on Debian / Ubuntu

License

BSD

Author Information

• steenzout