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# Ansible Role: node exporter
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Deploy prometheus [node exporter](https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter) using ansible.
- Ansible >= 2.7 (It might work on previous versions, but we cannot guarantee it)
- gnu-tar on Mac deployer host (`brew install gnu-tar`)
## Role Variables
All variables which can be overridden are stored in [defaults/main.yml](defaults/main.yml) file as well as in table below.
| Name | Default Value | Description |
| -------------- | ------------- | -----------------------------------|
| `node_exporter_version` | 1.0.0 | Node exporter package version. Also accepts latest as parameter. |
| `node_exporter_binary_local_dir` | "" | Allows to use local packages instead of ones distributed on github. As parameter it takes a directory where `node_exporter` binary is stored on host on which ansible is ran. This overrides `node_exporter_version` parameter |
| `node_exporter_web_listen_address` | "0.0.0.0:9100" | Address on which node exporter will listen |
| `node_exporter_enabled_collectors` | [ systemd, textfile ] | List of additionally enabled collectors. It adds collectors to [those enabled by default](https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter#enabled-by-default) |
| `node_exporter_disabled_collectors` | [] | List of disabled collectors. By default node_exporter disables collectors listed [here](https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter#disabled-by-default). |
| `node_exporter_textfile_dir` | "/var/lib/node_exporter" | Directory used by the [Textfile Collector](https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter#textfile-collector). To get permissions to write metrics in this directory, users must be in `node-exp` system group.
| `node_exporter_tls_server_config` | {} | Configuration for TLS authentication. Keys and values are the same as in [node_exporter docs](https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter/blob/master/https/README.md#sample-config). |
| `node_exporter_http_server_config` | {} | Config for HTTP/2 support. Keys and values are the same as in [node_exporter docs](https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter/blob/master/https/README.md#sample-config). |
| `node_exporter_basic_auth_users` | {} | Dictionary of users and password for basic authentication. Passwords are automatically hashed with bcrypt. |
## Example
### Playbook
Use it in a playbook as follows:
```yaml
- hosts: all
roles:
### TLS config
Before running node_exporter role, user needs to provision their own certificate and key.
```yaml
- hosts: all
pre_tasks:
- name: Create node_exporter cert dir
file:
path: "/etc/node_exporter"
state: directory
owner: root
group: root
- name: Create cert and key
openssl_certificate:
path: /etc/node_exporter/tls.cert
csr_path: /etc/node_exporter/tls.csr
privatekey_path: /etc/node_exporter/tls.key
provider: selfsigned
roles:
- cloudalchemy.node-exporter
vars:
node_exporter_tls_server_config:
cert_file: /etc/node_exporter/tls.cert
key_file: /etc/node_exporter/tls.key
node_exporter_basic_auth_users:
randomuser: examplepassword
```
We provide demo site for full monitoring solution based on prometheus and grafana. Repository with code and links to running instances is [available on github](https://github.com/cloudalchemy/demo-site) and site is hosted on [DigitalOcean](https://digitalocean.com).
## Local Testing
The preferred way of locally testing the role is to use Docker and [molecule](https://github.com/metacloud/molecule) (v2.x). You will have to install Docker on your system. See "Get started" for a Docker package suitable to for your system.
We are using tox to simplify process of testing on multiple ansible versions. To install tox execute:
To run tests on all ansible versions (WARNING: this can take some time)
tox
```
To run a custom molecule command on custom environment with only default test scenario:
```sh
tox -e py35-ansible28 -- molecule test -s default
For more information about molecule go to their [docs](http://molecule.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
If you would like to run tests on remote docker host just specify `DOCKER_HOST` variable before running tox tests.
Combining molecule and travis CI allows us to test how new PRs will behave when used with multiple ansible versions and multiple operating systems. This also allows use to create test scenarios for different role configurations. As a result we have a quite large test matrix which will take more time than local testing, so please be patient.
## Contributing
See [contributor guideline](CONTRIBUTING.md).
## License
This project is licensed under MIT License. See [LICENSE](/LICENSE) for more details.