DESCRIPTION:¶ ↑

Opscode Chef cookbook for td-agent (Treasure Data Agent). The release log of td-agent is available here.

NOTE: td-agent is open-sourced as Fluentd project. If you want to use stable version of Fluentd, using this cookbook is recommended.

INSTALLATION:¶ ↑

The knife-github-cookbooks gem is a plugin for knife that supports installing cookbooks directly from a GitHub repository. To install with this plugin, please follow these steps:

$ gem install knife-github-cookbooks
$ cd chef-repo
$ knife cookbook github install treasure-data/chef-td-agent

REQUIREMENTS:¶ ↑

This cookbook has these external dependencies.

apt cookbook
yum cookbook

ATTRIBUTES:¶ ↑

api_key¶ ↑

API Key, and the Secret Key are required.

node[:api_key] (required)

plugins¶ ↑

A list of fluentd plugins to install. The fluent-plugin- prefix is automatically added. Additional variables can be passed.

node[:plugins]

Example¶ ↑

This installs the latest version of fluent-plugin-flowcounter and version 0.0.9 of fluent-plugin-rewrite.

node[:td_agent][:plugins] = [
  "flowcounter",
  { "rewrite" => { "version" => "0.0.9" } }
]

RESOURCES / PROVIDERS:¶ ↑

td_agent_gem¶ ↑

Installs a gem or fluentd plugin using the embedded fluent-gem

Actions¶ ↑

Action: Description
install: Install the gem, optinally with a specific version. Default.
upgrade: Upgrade to the latest gem
remove: Remove the gem
purge: Purge the gem

Attributes¶ ↑

Attribute: Description
package_name: Gem name. Defaults to name
version: Gem version. Installs the latest if none specified
source: Local .gem file
options: Options passed to the gem command
gem_binary: Override path to the gem command
response_file: Not supported
plugin: If true, no need to prefix the gem name w/ “fluent-plugin-”. Defaults to false

Examples¶ ↑

This installs fluent-plugin-datacounter (v0.1.8)

td_agent_gem "datacounter" do
  version "0.1.8"
  plugin true
end

This installs the latest version of aws-sdk

td_agent_gem "aws-sdk" do
  plugin false
end

USAGE:¶ ↑

This is an example role file.

name "base"
description "base server role."
run_list(
  "recipe[apt]",
  "recipe[yum]",
  "recipe[td-agent]",
)
override_attributes(
  # for td-agent
  :td_agent => {
    :api_key => 'foo_bar_buz',
    :plugins => [
      'rewrite'
    ]
  }
)

baldur/chef-td-agent