Ansible Role: Kibana

An Ansible Role that installs Kibana on RedHat/CentOS or Debian/Ubuntu.

Requirements

• This role was made to work with Nginx; other HTTP servers are not supported at this time.
• On RedHat-based distributions, the python-passlib library is required, which is available through the EPEL repository. You can enable EPEL by adding the geerlingguy.repo-epel role to your playbook.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

workspace: /root

A workspace where Kibana's download will be stored while configuring Kibana.

kibana_root: /var/www/kibana3

The location of Kibana's base install.

kibana_server_name: logs.example.com

The FQDN or IP address of the Kibana server.

kibana_elasticsearch_port: 80

The port where Kibana will connect to Elasticsearch.

kibana_username: kibana
kibana_password: password

Kibana basic HTTP authentication username and password. Please override these with secure credentials!

kibana_password_protect_all: false

If set to false (default), only Kibana configuration resulting in persistent changes (saving or loading dashboards, for example) will be password protected. If set to true, all of Kibana will require password protection via Nginx HTTP basic authentication.

Dependencies

• geerlingguy.nginx
• geerlingguy.repo-epel (RedHat/CentOS only)

Example Playbook

- hosts: search
  roles:
    - { role: geerlingguy.nginx }
    - { role: geerlingguy.kibana }

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2014 by Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps.