lokling / ansible-graphite

Use Ansible to install and configure Graphite

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Tested with Ansible 1.4.1 against RHEL/CentOS 6.4.

This Ansible playbook will install graphite via pip in its default location '/opt/graphite'

To run this playbook.

1. clone the repo
2. modify hosts file with the IP or hostname of the server you want to setup
3. ignore ssh's known hosts file

• export ANSIBLE_HOST_KEY_CHECKING=False

4. run ansible-playbook -i hosts playbook.yml
5. In ~4 minutes you should have a running Graphite/Statd server!

• I've been testing this on a Digital Ocean VM - 1 CPU/1GB Ram CentOS 6.4

Graphite

Graphite will be installed via pip in its default location '/opt/graphite'

Secrets

Change graphite_secret_key under roles/graphite/defaults/main.yml to something unique for your graphite instance!

Statsd

Ansible will setup statsd to communicate with a Graphite server running on localhost by default.

Carbon's Storage Schema and Aggregation configuration have been setup according to this page.

TODO

• Automate Django superuser creation python manage.py createsuperuser.
• Add Debian support

Resources

• http://graphite.wikidot.com/quickstart-guide