Ansible Role InfluxDB

Fully configurable InfluxDB installation and management.
You can manage your users and databases with influxdb_users and influxdb_databases variables.

Supported platforms

Distribution	Last check date	From scratch	Idempotency
CentOS 7.2.1511 (Core)	2016-08-06 18:40:07
Debian 7.10 (wheezy)	2016-08-06 18:41:39
Debian 8.4 (jessie)	2016-08-06 18:43:44
Ubuntu 12.04 (precise)	2016-08-06 18:45:21
Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty)	2016-08-06 18:47:32
Ubuntu 15.04 (vivid)	2016-08-06 18:49:37
Ubuntu 15.10 (wily)	2016-08-06 18:51:39
Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial)	2016-08-06 18:53:35

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Requirements

This role requires ansible 2.1.0+ (apt_repository use filename)

Module influxdb_user

This role contains a module to manage your influxdb users. It can:

• Ensure a user is present or absent
• create an admin user or a classic user
• manage user's database grants access (NO, READ, WRITE or ALL privileges)
• append your specified grants to the existing ones

For more information about this module, please see its dedicated documentation

Note: You can use this module independently or via the variable influxdb_users

Role Variables

Every variables have default value. This role can be run with default configuration.

global options

Name	Description	Default
influxdb_install_user	Which user will be used to install.	"root"
influxdb_user	InfluxDB user	"influxdb"
influxdb_group	InfluxDB group	"influxdb"
influxdb_config_dir	Where is located configuration files	"/etc/influxdb"
influxdb_config_file	Name of the configuration file	"influxdb.conf"
influxdb_users	Allow to manage users (see below)	[]
influxdb_databases	Allow to manage databases (see below)	["_internal"]

Managing users

The influxdb_users variables gives the ability to manage users creation and rights management. For each entry, the script will:

• create the user if it does not exists
• update the user password if it has changed
• give the admin role if the type is set to admin
• revoke any previously defined database rights
• gives the right specified to each database.

Example:

influxdb_users:
  - name: admin
    admin: yes
    password: admin
  - name: grafana
    password: grafana
    grants: "measurement:READ" # Gives READ access to the measurement table for user grafana
  - type: user
    name: telegraf
    password: telegraf
    grants: "measurement:WRITE" # Gives WRITE access to the measurement table for user telegraf
  - name: john
    password: john
    grants: "measurement:ALL" # Gives READ and WRITE access to the measurement table for user telegraf

For safety reasons, it does not remove any databases.

Managing databases

Ensure databases listed in influxdb_databases are created.

Example:

influxdb_databases:
  - "_internal"
  - "grafana"

For safety reasons, it does not remove any databases.

Configuration file options

Each parameter in the configuration file may be specified.
Variable format: influxdb__<block-name>__<parameter_in_snake_case>

Name	Description	Default
influxdb_config__meta__dir		"/var/lib/influxdb/meta"
influxdb_config__meta__retention_autocreate		"true"
influxdb_config__meta__logging_enabled		"true"
influxdb_config__meta__pprof_enabled		"false"
influxdb_config__meta__lease_duration		"1m0s"
influxdb_config__data__enabled		"true"
influxdb_config__data__dir		"/var/lib/influxdb/data"
influxdb_config__data__wal_dir		"/var/lib/influxdb/wal"
influxdb_config__data__wal_logging_enabled		"true"
influxdb_config__data__data_logging_enabled		"true"
influxdb_config__data__query_log_enabled		"true"
influxdb_config__data__cache_max_memory_size		524288000
influxdb_config__data__cache_snapshot_memory_size		26214400
influxdb_config__data__cache_snapshot_write_cold_duration		"1h"
influxdb_config__data__compact_min_file_count		3
influxdb_config__data__compact_full_write_cold_duration		"24h"
influxdb_config__data__max_points_per_block		1000
influxdb_config__cluster__shard_writer_timeout		"5s"
influxdb_config__cluster__write_timeout		"10s"
influxdb_config__cluster__max_concurrent_queries		0
influxdb_config__cluster__query_timeout		"0s"
influxdb_config__cluster__max_select_point		0
influxdb_config__cluster__max_select_series		0
influxdb_config__cluster__max_select_buckets		0
influxdb_config__retention__enabled		"true"
influxdb_config__retention__check_interval		"30s"
influxdb_config__shard_precreation__enabled		"true"
influxdb_config__shard_precreation__check_interval		"10m"
influxdb_config__shard_precreation__advance_period		"30m"
influxdb_config__monitor__store_enabled		"true"
influxdb_config__monitor__store_database		"_internal"
influxdb_config__monitor__store_interval		"10s"
influxdb_config__admin__enabled		"true"
influxdb_config__admin__bind_address		":8083"
influxdb_config__admin__https_enabled		"false"
influxdb_config__admin__https_certificate		"/etc/ssl/influxdb.pem"
influxdb_config__http__enabled		"true"
influxdb_config__http__bind_address		":8086"
influxdb_config__http__auth_enabled		"false"
influxdb_config__http__log_enabled		"true"
influxdb_config__http__write_tracing		"false"
influxdb_config__http__pprof_enabled		"false"
influxdb_config__http__https_enabled		"false"
influxdb_config__http__https_certificate		"/etc/ssl/influxdb.pem"
influxdb_config__http__max_row_limit		10000
influxdb_config__graphite__enabled		"false"
influxdb_config__graphite__bind_address		":2003"
influxdb_config__graphite__database		"graphite"
influxdb_config__graphite__protocol		"tcp"
influxdb_config__graphite__batch_size		5000
influxdb_config__graphite__batch_pending		10
influxdb_config__graphite__batch_timeout		"1s"
influxdb_config__graphite__consistency_level		"one"
influxdb_config__graphite__separator		"."
influxdb_config__graphite__udp_read_buffer		0
influxdb_config__graphite__tags		[]
influxdb_config__graphite__templates		[]
influxdb_config__collectd__enabled		"false"
influxdb_config__collectd__bind_address		":25826"
influxdb_config__collectd__database		"collectd"
influxdb_config__collectd__batch_size		5000
influxdb_config__collectd__batch_pending		10
influxdb_config__collectd__batch_timeout		"10s"
influxdb_config__collectd__read_buffer		0
influxdb_config__collectd__typesdb		"/usr/share/collectd/types.db"
influxdb_config__opentsdb__enabled		"false"
influxdb_config__opentsdb__bind_address		":4242"
influxdb_config__opentsdb__database		"opentsdb"
influxdb_config__opentsdb__retention_policy		""
influxdb_config__opentsdb__consistency_level		"one"
influxdb_config__opentsdb__tls_enabled		"false"
influxdb_config__opentsdb__certificate		"/etc/ssl/influxdb.pem"
influxdb_config__opentsdb__batch_size		1000
influxdb_config__opentsdb__batch_pending		5
influxdb_config__opentsdb__batch_timeout		"1s"
influxdb_config__opentsdb__log_point_errors		"true"
influxdb_config__udp__enabled		"false"
influxdb_config__udp__bind_address		":8089"
influxdb_config__udp__database		"udp"
influxdb_config__udp__retention_policy		""
influxdb_config__udp__batch_size		5000
influxdb_config__udp__batch_pending		10
influxdb_config__udp__batch_timeout		"1s"
influxdb_config__udp__read_buffer		0
influxdb_config__udp__udp_payload_size		65536
influxdb_config__continuous_queries__log_enabled		"true"
influxdb_config__continuous_queries__enabled		"true"
influxdb_config__continuous_queries__run_interval		"1s"

Dependencies

None.

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: servers
  roles:
     - { role: juliendufresne.influxdb }

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2016 by Julien Dufresne.