Ansible Playbook for InfluxDB & Grafana on DigitalOcean

This playbook aims to install InfluxDB and Grafana on a Ubuntu 14.10 droplet on DigitalOcean.

The whole process took me 4 minutes from droplet creation to finished installation.

Quick quide

apt-get install python-devel python-pip
sudo pip install ansible --upgrade
git clone https://github.com/bitmazk/ansible-digitalocean-influxdb-grafana.git
cd ansible-digitalocean-influxdb-grafana
cp hosts.sample hosts
vim hosts
cp vars/external_vars.yml.sample vars/external_vars.yml
vim vars/external_vars.yml
ansible-playbook -i hosts site.yml

Detailed instructions

Grafana will be served via nginx, InfluxDB will be accessible throught it's default webserver.

I haven't figured out how to run this stack with an SSL cert, so this is rather insecure at the moment. For some reason, InfluxDB doesn't seem to work with the same self signed SSL cert that I created for nginx.

Create droplet & upload SSH key

First setup your droplet on DigitalOcean. Make sure to upload your public SSH key and select that key when creating your droplet. This will allow you to login as root without entering a password.

Install Ansible

Make sure that you have Ansible installed. I wouldn't even bother to create a virtualenv for this because it is quite unlikely that you will ever need several different versions of Ansible on your machine. The latest should always do.

sudo pip install ansible --upgrade

Clone this repository & change variables

Now clone this repository and cd into the cloned folder.

Copy the hosts.example file and enter the IP address of your DigitalOcean droplet.

cp hosts.example hosts
vim hosts

Copy the external_vars.yml.example file and change all usernames and passwords to your liking.

cp vars/external_vars.yml.sample vars/external_vars.yml
vim vars/external_vars.yml

Run the playbook

Execute the playbook:

ansible-playbook -i hosts site.yml

Wasn't that easy? ;)

Create awesome dashboards

You can now visit http://<droplet-ip>:8083 and see your InfluxDB admin. You will see that we have two databases, one for saving grafana dashboards and another for your project's metrics.

You can also visit http://<droplet-ip> to see your grafana dashboard.

Update Grafana

When a new version of Grafana is released, just change the GRAFANA_SOURCE_FILENAME in external_vars.yml and run:

ansible-playbook -i hosts update-grafana.yml

BalicantaYao/ansible-digitalocean-influxdb-grafana