Sensu deploying role

This is a fork of an official Sensu deploying ansible role.
This fork solves the errors, happened during the usage of unarchive-ansible-module for a remote tar.gz file

Ansible Version: 2.5
Ubuntu 16.04 and Cent OS 7

[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/tmp/ansible-tmp...

Official Readme

Check the official readme for the details: https://github.com/sensu/sensu-ansible/blob/master/README.md

Playbook Prerequirements

To install Sensu with this fork of the role - several prerequirements must be met.

Role installation

The playbook requires this fork of the ansible role installed.
The installation of the fork globally can be done with:

mkdir -p /etc/ansible/roles
git clone https://github.com/skipidar/sensu-ansible.git /etc/ansible/roles/cmacrae.sensu/

Ansible inventory

Some groups in the ansible inventory - a required. / The following ansible-hosts file will make sensu be installed locally.

Achtung:
localhost is not accepted by redis. It requires the ip instead.


[sensu_masters]
127.0.0.1   ansible_connection=local

[redis_servers]
127.0.0.1   ansible_connection=local

[rabbitmq_servers]
127.0.0.1   ansible_connection=local

Ansible PlayBook

The playbook, which installs Sensu Master Sensu Master with all dependencies:

RabbitMQ
Redis
Sensu API
Sensu Master
Sensu Client (on the Master)

---
- name: Install sensu
  hosts: sensu_masters
  become: true
  roles:
    - role: cmacrae.sensu
      rabbitmq_server: true
      redis_server: true
      sensu_master: true
      sensu_include_dashboard: true         
      uchiwa_users: [{username: user, password: password}]
      uchiwa_port: 3000

Role Variables

Additional Role variables

Variable	Describtion	Example
sensu_client_networkadapter_name	The name of teh network adapter, which should be used, to retrieve the ipv4, visible in the sensu client	ansible_enp0s8

Test with Vagrant

Use Vagrant to execute a deployment locally. / Check the vagrant project here

alfrepo/sensu-ansible