Ansible InfluxDB

This role installs, manages and configures InfluxDB. Including Databases and Users. Most major distribution should be supported. Pull-Requests and Issues are welcome :)

Requirements

Two requirements need to be in place at first, the influxdb python client should be installed, the role does take care of that.

And second, pip needs to be present in order to install influxdb python client.

Role Variables

Defaults

The Default variables are all listed below, for every config section of the influxdb.conf there is its own variable.

Please change the admin password to something more secure then the default:

influxdb_admin_username: admin
influxdb_admin_password: admin

---
influxdb_manage_repository: yes
influxdb_manage_package: yes
influxdb_config_dir: /etc/influxdb
influxdb_config_global:
    reporting-disabled: false
    bind-address: 127.0.0.1:8086
influxdb_config_graphite:
  - enabled: false
    tags:
      - region=us
      - zone=test
influxdb_config_collectd:
  - enabled: false
influxdb_config_udp:
  - enabled: false
influxdb_config_meta:
  dir: /var/lib/influxdb/meta
  retention-autocreate: true
  logging-enabled: true
influxdb_config_http:
  enabled: true
  bind-address: :8086
  auth-enabled: true
  ping-auth-enabled: true
influxdb_config_data:
  dir: /var/lib/influxdb/data
  wal-dir: /var/lib/influxdb/wal
  series-id-set-cache-size: 100
influxdb_admin_username: admin
influxdb_admin_password: admin

Please consult the params for every config section from the documentation:

influxdb_config_global global

influxdb_config_meta meta

influxdb_config_data data

influxdb_config_http http

influxdb_config_subscriber subscriber

influxdb_config_graphite graphite

influxdb_config_monitor monitor

influxdb_config_shard_precreation shard-precreation

influxdb_config_collectd collectd

influxdb_config_continuous_queries

influxdb_config_tls

influxdb_config_retention

influxdb_config_udp

All Sections which can be defined multiple times, these are defined as array.

Following Example:

influxdb_config_graphite:
  - enabled: true
    database: graphite
    tags:
      - region=us
      - zone=test
      - instance=01
  - enabled: true
    database: graphite2
    tags:
      - region=de
      - zone=prod
      - instance=02

Define Databases

To define databases just use following syntax to create multiple:

influxdb_databases:
  - name: telegraf-metrics
    state: present
  - name: graphite
    state: present
  - name: icinga
    state: present

All params for the databases are listed below:

influxdb_databases:
  - name:
    login_password:
    login_username:
    hostname:
    port:
    proxies:
    retries:
    state:
    ssl:
    timeout:
    udp_port:
    use_udp:
    validate_certs:

Define Users

To define users just use following syntax to create multiple:

influxdb_users:
  - name: influxadm
    password: influxdbadmpass
    admin: yes
  - name: icinga
    admin: no
    password: icinga
    grants:
      - database: 'icinga'
        privilege: 'WRITE'

All params for the users are listed below:

influxdb_users:
  - name: foo
    admin: true/false
    state: present/absent
    password: 'password'
    port: 8086
    hostname: localhost
    login_username: admin
    login_password: admin
    ssl: true/false

Example Playbook

Including an example of how to use your role (for instance, with variables passed in as parameters) is always nice for users too:

- hosts: influxdb-node1
  vars:
    influxdb_admin_username: admin
    influxdb_admin_password: admin123
    influxdb_databases:
      - name: telegraf-metrics
        state: present
    influxdb_users:
      - name: telegraf
        password: telegraf
        grants:
          - database: telegraf-metrics
            privilege: "WRITE"
  roles:
     - { role: mkayontour.influxdb }

License

Apache-2.0

Author Information

Twitter: @mkayontour