ansible-beats

Installs and configures a specified Beat instance.

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/index.html

Requirements

• Ansible 2.x

Role Variables

Variable	required	default	comments
BEAT_TYPE	no	"metricbeat"	The name of the beat to install. The list of supported_beats is defined in the role vars.
beat_install	no	true	A flag used to control whether the role should perform installation steps.
beat_config	no		When defined, the child yaml is used to populate the beat's config file. If undefined, the config file is unchanged.*
beat_svc_state	no		When defined, corresponds to the desired state parameter of Ansible's Service Module.
beat_svc_enabled	no		When defined, corresponds to the desired enabled parameter of Ansible's Service Module.
beat_cfg_file	no	{{BEAT_TYPE}}.yml	If defined, sets the name for the config file.
beat_version	no		If defined, will install the specified version.

*: You are able to use config file namespacing when defining the beat_config variable, but it is not suggested.

Dependencies

None

Example Playbooks

To install metricbeat with default configuration:

- hosts: myhosts
  vars:
  roles:
     - role: cyverse.beats

To install metricbeat with specified configuration:

- hosts: myhosts
  vars:
    beat_config:
       metricbeat.modules:
       - module: system
         metricsets:
           - cpu
           - filesystem
           - memory
           - network
           - process
         enabled: true
         period: 10s
         processes: ['.*']
         cpu_ticks: false
       - module: apache
         metricsets: ["status"]
         enabled: true
         period: 1s
         hosts: ["http://127.0.0.1"]
       output.elasticsearch:
         hosts: ["127.0.0.1:9200"]
  roles:
     - role: cyverse.beats

To install filebeat with specified configuration:

- hosts: myhosts
  vars:
    BEAT_TYPE: filebeat
    beat_config:
         ...
  roles:
     - role: cyverse.beats

License

See LICENSE.txt

Author Information

https://cyverse.org