orachide / ansible-role-fluentbit

Ansible role that install FluentBit

Ansible Role Fluentbit

This role install Fluentbit as a service on given hosts

Installation

ansible-galaxy install orachide.fluentbit

Requirements

None

Role Variables

Variables	Required	Default value	Description
fluentbit_service_flush_seconds	false	5	Flush interval in seconds
fluentbit_service_metrics_listen_port	false	2020	Http endpoint (metrics) port
fluentbit_inputs	false	[]	Array of inputs (in JSON format) to add in default conf file
fluentbit_outputs	false	[]	Array of ouputs (in JSON format) to add in default conf file
fluentbit_additional_conf_files	false	[]	Additional conf files to be installed, could be Jinja template
fluentbit_apt_repo	false	deb https://packages.fluentbit.io/ubuntu/bionic bionic main	An apt source url to use

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

Including an example of how to use your role (for instance, with variables passed in as parameters) is always nice for users too:

- name: Converge
  hosts: all
  roles:
    - role: ansible-role-fluentbit
      fluentbit_service_flush_seconds: 5
      fluentbit_service_log_level: info
      fluentbit_service_enable_metrics: true
      fluentbit_service_metrics_listen_port: 2020
      fluentbit_apt_repo: 'deb https://packages.fluentbit.io/debian/buster buster main'
      fluentbit_inputs:
        - {"Name": "dummy", "Tag": "dummy.log"}
      fluentbit_outputs:
        - {"Name": "stdout", "Match": "*"}
      fluentbit_additional_conf_files:
        - name: cpu.conf
          template: '{{ playbook_dir }}/templates/cpu.conf.j2'

License

BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2019 by Rachide Ouattara.

ansible-role-fluentbit's Issues

Change Package name, td-agent-bit is depracted

A new package name is relased, making this current role unfortunatly obsolete.
Could you please rename the package to install ?
https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/installation/linux#migration-to-fluent-bit

Custom parser files

Hey!

I'm trying to setup some custom parser files and include them in the config to be used by the inputs.

The parser files aren't copied to the server, shouldn't they be?

How do you suggest doing it?

Thanks!