Ansible Fluentd playbook

This role installs and configures Fluentd v1.x on a Debian server.

Requirements

This role requires Ansible 1.4 or higher and platform requirements are listed in the metadata file.

Role Variables

The variables that can be passed to this role and a brief description about them are as follows.

# fluentd fqdn used by forwarders to fluentd
fluentd_server_fqdn: fluentd-server.fqdn

# Address of elasticsearch used by fluentd
es_fqdn: localhost
es_port: 9200

# If this machine should forward to Elasticsearch
forward_to_es: True

# Syslog plugin
fluentd_plugin_syslog_ip: 127.0.0.1
fluentd_plugin_syslog_port: 5140

Examples

# Fluentd clients
- name: common
  hosts: all
  user: root
  roles:
    - fluentd
  vars:
    - fluentd_server_fqdn: fluentd-server.fqdn
    - es_fqdn: localhost
    - es_port: 9200
    - fluentd_plugin_syslog_ip: 127.0.0.1
    - fluentd_plugin_syslog_port: 5140


# Fluentd server
- name: log server
  hosts: logs
  user: root
  roles:
    - fluentd
  vars:
    - es_fqdn: localhost
    - es_port: 9200
    - forward_to_es: True

Dependencies

None

License

GPL

Author Information

Pierre Mavro / deimosfr