grafana_monitoring

Ansible Deployment of Cloud Grafana

What?

An Ansible playbook to deploy our staging / production Grafana instances. It installs Grafana with HAProxy and uses a bash script to clone our dashboard repository to the Grafana provisioning folder. The bash script is also run with cron to keep the dashboards up-to-date..

Why?

To replace the Aquilon configuration...

How?

Note: You will need to have a floating IP with DNS and ports 80, 443 open. You must set up a load balancer and add the VM as a member to both pools beforehand.

1. Clone this repository

   git clone https://github.com/stfc/SCD-OpenStack-Utils

2. Install ansible with pip (with a virtual environment)

   sudo apt install python3-venv
   python3 -m venv ansible
   source ansible/bin/activate
   pip install ansible

3. By default, the hosts file includes both the dev and prod grafana instance domains. If you want to run the playbook on only one of these instances you need to uncomment the corresponding host in the inventory.

   # Contents of: ./hosts.ini
   [grafana]
   # grafana.nubes.rl.ac.uk
   # dev-grafana.nubes.rl.ac.uk

4. Run the ansible playbook

   ansible-playbook site.yaml --inventory hosts.ini --ask-vault-pass

5. If you need to make changes to any of the services' config you can run each role separately with their tags

   ansible-playbook site.yaml --inventory hosts.ini --ask-vault-pass --tags <grafana | haproxy | certbot>