ansible-influxdb-in-docker

Ansible galaxy role to deploy InfluxDB in docker

The purpose of this Ansible role is to allow you to manage a InfluxDB time series database.

With this role you will be able to deploy a InfluxDB container on you server.

Requirements

The following packages have to be installed and well configured on the host :

• Docker-ce

Role Variables

User defined variables

The following vars have to be defined on each execution by the user to configure the InfluxDB configuration

Mandatory - Endpoints list configuration

Overridable default variables

Name of the InfluxDB docker container

influxdb_container_name: "influxdb"

Path on the host filesystem where will be the InfluxDB conf and data files

influxdb_root_location: "/opt/docker-data/{{ influxdb_container_name }}"
influxdb_conf_location: "{{ influxdb_root_location }}/conf"
influxdb_data_location: "{{ influxdb_root_location }}/data"

Docker networks

influxdb_docker_networks: []
#influxdb_docker_networks:
#  - name: "docker_network"

Docker container restart policy

influxdb_container_restart_policy: "always" #(always, no, on-failure, unless-stopped)

Dependencies

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Example Playbook

See tests/test.yml

• ansible-playbook tests/test.yml --ask-sudo-password -e influxdb_root_location="$(pwd)/.workdir/"
• On MacsOS due to Docker Machine root limitation : add -e ansible_become_user="$(whoami)"

- hosts: localhost
  roles:
    - role: ../ansible-influxdb-in-docker

License

MIT

Author Information

https://github.com/BastienF/ansible-influxdb-in-docker