/ansible-role-logrotate

An ansible role to install and configure logrotate

Ansible Role: logrotate

An ansible role to install and configure logrotate.

Requirements

This role has been tested on Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 16.10 only.

Variables

  • logrotate_conf_dir: location of additional logrotate configurations.

    • Default: /etc/logrotate.d

  • logrotate_conf_scripts: list of scripts to configure rotations.

    • Default: []

Script Definition

Each script in the list should conform to the following definition.

  • name: a unique name for this script. usually the name of the service. e.g. nginx

    • Required

  • path: path to logfile. e.g /var/log/nginx/*.log.

    • Required

  • options: logrotate options.

    • Default: []

  • postrotate: scripts to execute after the rotation.

    • Default: []

  • state: state of this item.

    • Default: present
    • Options:
      • present
      • absent

Usage Example

- hosts: all
  vars:
    logrotate_conf_scripts:
      - name: semaphore
        path: /var/log/semaphore/*.log
        options:
          - rotate 14
          - daily
          - compress
          - delaycompress
          - sharedscripts
          - missingok
        postrotate:
          - /usr/sbin/service semaphore restart
  roles:
    - thedumbtechguy.logrotate

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created by TheDumbTechGuy ( twitter | blog | galaxy )

Credits

This role was built upon the original work of: