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Ansible Role: Kibana

This roles installs and configures Kibana.

Requirements

You need to have the Elastic Repos configured on you system. You can use our role for that but you don't have to.

kibana_elasticsearch_hosts: A list of DNS resolvable hostnames of Elasticsearch hosts to connect your Kibana instance to. (default: - localhost)
kibana_manage_yaml: Change Kibanas main configuration file (default: true)
kibana_config_backup: Keep backups if we change any configuration file (default: true)
kibana_tls: Whether to offer https for clients or not (default: false)
kibana_tls_cert: Path to the certificate Kibana should show to its clients (default: /etc/kibana/certs/cert.pem)
kibana_tls_key: Path to the key Kibana should use when communicating with clients (default: /etc/kibana/certs/key.pem)
kibana_security: Activate TLS and authentication when connecting to Elasticsearch. Note: Only works when elastic_stack_full_stack is enabled. (default: true)

These variables are identical over all our elastic related roles, hence the different naming scheme.

elastic_stack_full_stack: Use ansible-role-elasticsearch as well (default: false)
elasticsearch_ca: Set to the inventory hostname of the host that should house the CA for certificates for inter-node communication. (default: First node in the elasticsearch host group)
elastic_ca_dir: Directory where on the Elasticsearch CA host certificates are stored. This is only useful in connection with out other Elastic Stack related roles. (default: /opt/es-ca)
elastic_ca_pass: Password for Elasticsearch CA (default: PleaseChangeMe)
elastic_initial_passwords: Path to file with initical elasticsearch passwords (default: /usr/share/elasticsearch/initial_passwords)
elastic_release: Major release version of Elastic stack to configure. (default: 7)
elastic_variant: Variant of the stack to install. Valid values: elastic or oss. (default: elastic)

If you use localhost in kibana_elasticsearch_hosts , certificate verification will skip hostname checks

There's no real dependency but you might want to use this role together with our other Elastic Stack related roles:

- hosts: kibana
  roles:
     - kibana

GPLv3+

This role was created in 2019 by Netways.