Ansible Collection for Grafana

This collection (grafana.grafana) contains modules and roles to assist in automating the management of resources in Grafana, Grafana Agent, OpenTelemetry Collector, Loki, Mimir, Alloy, and Promtail with Ansible.

• Ansible collection Documentation
• Grafana
• Grafana Cloud

Ansible version compatibility

The collection is tested and supported with: ansible >= 2.9

Installing the collection

Before using the Grafana collection, you need to install it using the below command:

ansible-galaxy collection install grafana.grafana

You can also include it in a requirements.yml file and install it via ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml, using the format:

---
collections:
  - name: grafana.grafana

A specific version of the collection can be installed by using the version keyword in the requirements.yml file:

---
collections:
  - name: grafana.grafana
    version: 1.0.0

Roles included in the collection

This collection includes the following roles to help set up and manage Grafana, Grafana Agent, Alloy, OpenTelemetry Collector, Loki, Mimir and Promtail:

• Grafana: Installs and configures Grafana on your target hosts.
• Grafana Agent: Deploys and configures Grafana Agent, allowing for efficient metrics, logs, and trace data shipping to Grafana Cloud or other endpoints.
• Alloy: The replacement for Grafana Agent and Promtail. Alloy can be used to collect traces, metrics, and logs.
• OpenTelemetry Collector: Sets up and configures the OpenTelemetry Collector, enabling advanced observability features through data collection and transmission.
• Loki: Deploy and manage Loki, the log aggregation system.
• Mimir: Deploy and manage Mimir, the scalable long-term storage for Prometheus.
• Promtail: Deploy and manage Promtail, the agent which ships the contents of local logs to a private Grafana Loki.

Using this collection

You can call modules by their Fully Qualified Collection Namespace (FQCN), such as grafana.grafana.cloud_stack:

- name: Using grafana collection
  hosts: localhost
  tasks:
    - name: Create a Grafana Cloud stack
      grafana.grafana.cloud_stack:
        name: mystack
        stack_slug: mystack
        org_slug: myorg
        cloud_api_key: "{{ cloud_api_key }}"
        region: eu
        state: present

or you can add full namespace and collection name in the collections element in your playbook

- name: Using grafana collection
  hosts: localhost
  collection:
    - grafana.grafana
  tasks:
    - name: Create a Grafana Cloud stack
      cloud_stack:
        name: mystack
        stack_slug: mystack
        org_slug: myorg
        cloud_api_key: "{{ cloud_api_key }}"
        region: eu
        state: present

Contributing

We are accepting GitHub pull requests and issues. There are many ways in which you can participate in the project, for example:

• Submit bugs and feature requests, and help us verify them
• Submit and review source code changes in GitHub pull requests
• Add new modules for more Grafana resources

Testing and Development

If you want to develop new content for this collection or improve what is already here, the easiest way to work on the collection is to clone it into one of the configured COLLECTIONS_PATHS, and work on it there.

Testing with ansible-test

We use ansible-test for sanity.

Commands

Command	Description
make setup	Checks to see if necessary tools are installed
make install	Installs project dependencies
make lint	Performs all linting commands
make lint-sh / make lint-shell	Performs shell script linting
make lint-md / make lint-markdown	Performs Markdown linting
make lint-txt / make lint-text	Performs text linting
make lint-yml / make lint-yaml	Performs Yaml linting
make lint-ec / make lint-editorconfig	Performs EditorConfig Checks
make lint-ansible	Performs Ansible linting
make clean	Removes the ./node_modules and ./build directories
make reinstall	Shortcut to make clean and make install

Releasing, Versioning and Deprecation

This collection follows Semantic Versioning. More details on versioning can be found in the Ansible docs.

We plan to regularly release new minor or bugfix versions once new features or bugfixes have been implemented.

Releasing the current major version on GitHub happens from the main branch by the GitHub Release Workflow. Before the GitHub Release Workflow is run, Contributors should push the new version on Ansible Galaxy Manually.

To generate changelogs for a new release, Refer Generating Changelogs

To generate the tarball to be uploaded on Ansible Galaxy, Refer Building collection tarball

Code of Conduct

This collection follows the Ansible project's Code of Conduct. Please read and familiarize yourself with this doc

More information

• Maintainer guidelines
• Subscribe to the news-for-maintainers repository and track announcements there.
• Ansible Collection overview
• Ansible User guide
• Ansible Developer guide
• Ansible Collection Developer Guide
• Ansible Community code of conduct

License

GPL-3.0-or-later