newrelic-infra Ansible role

Description

This role installs and configures the New Relic Infrastructure agent.

Note that this is a simple role and is intended for you to use as a starting place for your own customized workflow.

Setup

What newrelic-infra affects

Adds the New Relic Infrastructure package repository source
Installs and configures the New Relic Infrastructure agent

Beginning with newrelic-infra

Include the role in your playbook. Customize the required variables.

Usage

All typical interactions with newrelic-infra will be done through role configuration.

Installing the Infrastructure agent

---
- hosts: ap_ne_1
  roles:
    - name: newrelic.newrelic-infra
      vars:
        nrinfragent_config:
          license_key: YOUR_LICENSE_KEY
          log_file: /var/log/nr-infra.log
          log_to_stdout: false

Reference

Role Configuration

Variables

`nrinfragent_state` (OPTIONAL)

Describes what you want to do with the agent:

'latest' - [default] install the latest version of the agent. Also present.
'absent' - Uninstall the agent.

`nrinfragent_os_name` (OPTIONAL)

Specifies the target OS that the Infrastructure agent will be installed on. Defaults to ansible_os_family. See list in the meta/main.yml file for latest list that is supported.

`nrinfragent_os_version` (OPTIONAL)

Specifies the OS version of the installer package needed for this machine. Defaults to ansible_lsb.major_release. Mostly used for RedHat family OSs. See list in the meta/main.yml file for latest list.

`nrinfragent_os_codename` (OPTIONAL)

Specifies the OS codename of the installer package needed for this machine. Defaults to ansible_lsb.codename. Mostly used for Debian family OSs. See list in the meta/main.yml file for latest list.

`nrinfragent_config` (REQUIRED)

Used to populate agent configuration. At a minimum you must provide license_key. See the NewRelic documentation for current configuration options: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/new-relic-infrastructure/configuration/configure-infrastructure-agent

`nrinfragent_choco_version` (OPTIONAL)

Specifies the version of newrelice infra chocolatey package to install on Windows. Can be used to pin the version or upgrade the agent.

`nrinfragent_service_state` (OPTIONAL)

Specifies the state of the newrelic-infra service after installation. Defaults to started which ensures the service will be running. You can change it to stopped to just install it but don't start it in this moment.

`nrinfragent_service_enabled` (OPTIONAL)

Specifies if the service will be enabled (start during boot). Defauts to yes, you can change it to no to prevent the service to automatically start on boot.

`nrinfragent_integrations` (OPTIONAL)

Specifies the infrastructure integrations to be installed. The list of available integrations can be found here.

Each package sould provide the name and state. The integrations package name is located in the Install and activate section of the individual integrations docs. They use the following convention: name of the service with the nri- prefix (nri-apache, nri-redis, ...). By default the state it's absent, which doesn't install the package; you can change it to latest or present.

configuration e.g.

nrinfragent_integrations:
  - { name: nri-nginx, state: "latest" }
  - { name: nri-mysql, state: "absent" }

The source code for each integration is available on newrelic's github organization.

Removing newrelic-infra-integrations package and its bundled integrations

NOTE This only applies if you have the newrelic-infra-integrations package installed

If you had installed the newrelic-infra-integrations package, could be because you were using the previous versions of this module, or you installed it some other way; and you want to do some cleanup by removing it or any of the following integrations (the ones that came bundle with it):

nri-redis
nri-cassandra
nri-apache
nri-nginx
nri-mysql

You have to add newrelic-infra-integrations as the first item of the nrinfragent_integrations with the desired state absent.

nrinfragent_integrations:
  - { name: newrelic-infra-integrations, state: "absent" }

DEPRECATED

Specify the license key. For backward compatibility. Use license_key in nrinfragent_config instead. If both are specified the one in nrinfragent_config will be used.

Limitations

Platforms

RHEL/CentOS
- RHEL/CentOS 8
- RHEL/CentOS 7
- RHEL/CentOS 6
- RHEL/CentOS 5
Ubuntu
- 18 Bionic
- 16 Xenial
- 14 Trusty
- 12 Precise
Debian
- 10 Buster
- 9 Stretch
- 8 Jessie
- 7 Wheezy
SUSE Linux Enterprise
- 12
Windows
- All
- Disclaimer: the Windows support is a third-party contribution that depends on the newrelic-infra Chocolatey package, which is maintained by @ripclawffb and @xandrellas. It is distributed without any guarantee nor support from New Relic.

Release to Ansible Galaxy

To release a new version to Ansible Galaxy follow this steps:

Update the CHANGELOG.md
Create a new Github release.
Make sure the version is imported into Ansible Galaxy, if there is any issue, ask one of the project owners.

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