InfluxDB

An Ansible role to install, configure, and manage
InfluxDB (a time-series
database).

Requirements

Prior knowledge/experience with InfluxDB is highly recommended. Full
documentation is available
here.

Installation

Either clone this repository, or install through Ansible Galaxy directly using the command:

ansible-galaxy install rossmcdonald.influxdb

Role Variables

The high-level variables are stored in the defaults/main.yml file. The most important one being:

# Channel of InfluxDB to install (stable, unstable, nightly)
influxdb_install_version: stable

More advanced configuration options are also stored in the
defaults/main.yml file, which includes all of the necessary bells
and whistles to tweak your configuration. There are more advanced
runtime options available in the vars/main.yml file as well.

Dependencies

No other Ansible dependencies are required. This role was tested and
developed with Ansible 1.9.4.

Testing

To test the role locally, it is recommended to either use
Vagrant or Docker. There are a variety
of available Dockerfiles in the /docker directory. For more
information on building the images, please review the
docker/build.sh script.

To run a playbook within one of the Docker images, simply run:

docker run -v $(pwd):/root <DOCKER IMAGE> <PLAYBOOK>

For example, to run the included test.yml using the included CentOS
7 Docker image, run (after building the image):

docker run -v $(pwd):/root ansible.influxdb.centos7 test.yml

Example Playbook

An example playbook is included in the test.yml file. There is also
a Vagrantfile, which can be used for quick local testing leveraging
Vagrant, and a few Docker Dockerfiles
located in the /docker directory.

Contributions and Feedback

Any contributions are welcome. For any bugs or feature requests,
please open an issue through Github.

License

MIT

Author

Created by Ross McDonald.