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?

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. Make an IRIS IAM client with the redirect URI of:

   https://<your-domain>:443/login/generic_oauth
   

4. Fill in the staging or production inventory with the credentials
5. (Optional): Change the grafana group inventory hosts to whatever IP they are running on
6. Copy your SSL certificate with name format <your-domain>.crt to roles/haproxy/files/ and make sure the key is prepended to the top.
7. Run the ansible playbook

   ansible-playbook site.yaml --inventory staging/production

8. If you need to make changes to either the Grafana or HAProxy config you can run each role separately with their tags

   ansible-playbook site.yaml --inventory staging/production --tags grafana
   # or
   ansible-playbook site.yaml --inventory staging/production --tags haproxy