Ansible Role: Kibana

An Ansible Role that installs Kibana(5.x & 6.x) on RedHat/CentOS or Debian/Ubuntu.

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

kibana_server_port: 5601
kibana_server_host: "0.0.0.0"

The FQDN or IP address and port Kibana should use.

kibana_elasticsearch_url: "http://localhost:9200"

The URL (including port) over which Kibana will connect to Elasticsearch.

kibana_elasticsearch_username: kibana
kibana_elasticsearch_password: changeme

Specify username and password of kibana user which kibana will use to connect to security enabled elasticsearch.

kibana_major_version: "6.x"

Kibana major version, it can be either 5.x or 6.x

kibana_version: "6.1.0"

Specify specific version you want to install

kibana_enable_xpack: false

Specify if you want to enable xpack for kibana

kibana_extra_conf: { }

If you want to set any additional configuration options please add here.

kibana_plugin_reinstall: false

If you want to reinstall plugins in a re-run, set this variable to true.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: kibana
  roles:
    - ansible-role-kibana

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2014 by Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps. This role is then modified by Shri Bodas in 2018.