aeriscloud / ansible-collectd

Ansible role for installing collectd

AerisCloud

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AerisCloud is a tool that gives application developers development environments that are identical to the production servers, and gives system administrators a way to organize their infrastructure as it is growing in size.

Installation

Read the instructions in the Getting Started page from the documentation.

Usage

Please note, that to make the following commands to work, you need to set up an organization as described in the Organization documentation page.

For developers:

# Create a new project
aeris init foo

# Start VMs
aeris up

# Stop VMs
aeris halt

Read the full documentation in the Getting Started page from the documentation.

For server operators:

# Provision production servers for projectA
cloud provision my-org/production my-org/projectA

# Execute a job
cloud job my-org/role-name/job-name my-org/projectA --limit="group-name" \
                                                    --extra-vars="aws_access_key=xxx" \
                                                    --extra-vars="aws_secret_key=xxx"

Read the full documentation in the server operators Getting Started page from the documentation.

Why should I use AerisCloud?

• As a developer, you will have an easy method to define the environment in which your application will run in, and other developers will be able to easily replicate the same environment.
• As a server operator, it will help you to organize your inventories and playbooks in one place. The CLI will be easier to understand as you will only have to provide the names of the playbook and inventory to use, instead of whole paths, options and arguments of ansible-playbook.
• The ansible playbooks are shared among development and production environments.

Contributing

See the contributing guide in the documentation.

ansible-collectd's Issues

Setting the collectd_forwarder

I'm testing out the role using a vagrant machine. I would like to just set the collectd_forwarder in the playbook but it won't take just an IP address or hostname. What is template that uses collectd_forwarder looking for?

vars: collectd_forwarder: collectd.database.tlc

Thanks

Installs all recommended packages

On Debian, the default is to install all recommended packages with the main package. Unfortunately, collectd has an absurd amount of recommended packages.

Since apt installs these recommended packages recursively, this role installs about 205MB of 'recommended' packages, including mysql-common, openjdk and even several X11 packages.

Suggest using the install_recommends option on the apt task.

fatal: [CentOS]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Could not find the requested service collectd: "}

fatal: [CentOS]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Could not find the requested service collectd: "}