eNiXHosting.telegraf

A role for deploying and configuring Telegraf and extensions on unix hosts using Ansible.

Requirements

Supported targets:

• Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial"
• Debian 7 "Wheezy"
• Debian 8 "Jessie"
• Debian 9 "Stretch"

Role Variables

This roles comes preloaded with almost every available default. You can override each one in your hosts/group vars, in your inventory, or in your play. See the annotated defaults in defaults/main.yml for help in configuration. All provided variables start with telegraf__.

• telegraf__ - desc

Dependencies

• eNiXHosting.influxdata-repo ansible role. Automatically pulled if you use ansible-galaxy.

Usage

Clone this repo into your roles directory:

$ git clone https://gitlab.enix.org/ansible/ansible-telegraf.git roles/telegraf

Or use Ansible galaxy requirements.yml

# telegraf from eNiXHosting
- src: eNiXHosting.telegraf
  name: telegraf

And add it to your play's roles:

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - role telegraf:
        telegraf__var: true

You can also use the role as a playbook. You will be asked which hosts to provision, and you can further configure the play by using --extra-vars.

$ ansible-playbook -i inventory --extra-vars='{...}' main.yml

Still to do

• Handle [global_tags] configuration
• Handle [agent] configuration
• Handle [[outputs:influxdb]] configuration
• Handle plugins configuration using generic /etc/telegraf/telegraf.d/

Changelog

0.1

Prerelease with only installation

License

GPLv2

Author Information

Laurent Corbes [email protected] - http://www.enix.fr