This is an Ansible role for installing InfluxDB.

What it Does

Software

Installs InfluxDB from the .deb which provides influxdb command.

Creates the files:

/opt/influxdb/current/config.toml -- configuration file for InfluxDB
/var/log/influxdb -- log directory (FIXME: though it doesn't seem to want to log there?)

Leaves a service influxdb which camps out several ports.

Use the role in a playbook like this:

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - influxdb

The following variables are exposed for configuration...