Ansible : Playbook Grafana

The aim of this project is to deploy Grafana on Vagrant instances.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

What things you need to run this Ansible playbook :

Vagrant must be installed on your computer
Update the Vagrant file based on your computer (CPU, memory), if needed
Update the operating system to deploy in the Vagrant file (default: Ubuntu)
Download the Ansible requirements:

$ ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml

Usage

A good point with Vagrant is that you can create, update and destroy all architecture easily with some commands.

Be aware that you need to be in the Vagrant directory to be able to run the commands.

Baremetal Deployment

To deploy the Grafana client on baremetal, you have to configure the variable grafana_install_type to baremetal in the file grafana.yml before running the playbook :

[...]
vars:
  grafana_install_type: baremetal
[...]

Once it's done, you just have to provision the Vagrant instance and the Ansible playbook will automatically be called :

$ vagrant up

If everything run as expected, you should be able to reach the web interface : http://10.0.0.11:3000/

Docker Deployment

To deploy the Grafana client on Docker, you have to configure the variable grafana_install_type to docker in the file grafana.yml before running the playbook :

[...]
vars:
  grafana_install_type: docker
[...]

Once it's done, you just have to provision the Vagrant instance and the Ansible playbook will automatically be called :

$ vagrant up

If everything run has expected, you should be able to reach the web interface : http://10.0.4.161:3000/

Destroy

To destroy the Vagrant resources created, just run this command :

$ vagrant destroy

How-To

This section list some simple command to use and manage the playbook and the Vagrant hosts.

Update with Ansible

To update the Grafana configuration with Ansible, you just have to run the Ansible playbook grafana.yml with this command :

$ ansible-playbook grafana.yml

Update with Vagrant

To update the Grafana configuration with Vagrant, you just have to run provisioning part of the Vagrant file :

$ vagrant provision

Connect to Vagrant instance

To be able to connect to a Vagrant instance, you should use the CLI which is configured to automatically use the default SSH key :

$ vagrant ssh grafana01

Author

Member of Wikitops : https://www.wikitops.io/

Licence

This project is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. For the full text of the license, see the LICENSE file.

wikitops/ansible_grafana