chef-kibana5

Description

This cookbook installs and configures Kibana version 5.2.0 and above. This cookbook may work with Kibana 6.x.x, but no guarantee.

Requirements

Cookbooks

• ark
• systemd

Platforms

Tested only on CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 16.04. Should work on any modern Linux OS with systemd.

Recipes

• default.rb - Runs kibana5_install and kibana5_configure with default options.

Resources

kibana5_install

This resource installs Kibana 5 binaries.

Attributes

Attribute	Description	Type	Default
name	Simply name. Currently not used.	String
version	Version of Kibana. 5.2.0 and above are supported.	String	5.6.16
install_method	Installation method. Currently only release is supported. This means installation from official binaries provided by Elastic.	String	release
base_dir	Base directory for Kibana binaries.	String	/opt/kibana
svc_user	Kibana daemon user.	String	kibana
svc_group	Kibana daemon group.	String	kibana

kibana5_configure

This resource configures Kibana daemon and main configuration file.

Attributes

Attribute	Description	Type	Default
svc_name	Name of the daemon	String
svc_user	Kibana daemon user.	String	kibana
svc_group	Kibana daemon group.	String	kibana
configuration	Hash with configuration file values. See examples.	Hash
template_cookbook	Override template from other cookbook.	String	kibana5

examples of configuration hashes:

{
  'server.port' => 5601,
  'server.host' => 'localhost',
  'elasticsearch.url' => 'http://localhost:9200',
}

{
  'server.port' => 5601,
  'server.host' => 'localhost',
  'server.name' => 'My-Kibana',
  'elasticsearch.url' => 'http://localhost:9200',
  'logging.dest' => '/var/log/kibana.log',
  'logging.verbose' => 'true',
  'elasticsearch.requestHeadersWhitelist' => '[ authorization ]',
}

Usage

It is recommended to use resources directly.

Examples

You may see examples in fixture cookbook: test/fixtures/kibana5-test/recipes/default.rb test/fixtures/kibana5-test/recipes/nginx.rb

Authors

• Author:: Azat Khadiev ([email protected])