Ansible Role grafana_grizzly

This role installs grizzly, a tool for the management of Grafana dashboards.

Additionally, this role allows you to apply Grafana resources which are saved as {{ inventory_dir }}/host_vars/{{ inventory_hostname }}/files/grafana_grizzly/*.yml.

Mandatory Requirements

A Grafana Server. This can be done using the linuxfabrik.lfops.grafana role.
A Grafana service account with an Admin token. This can be done using the linuxfabrik.lfops.grafana role.

If you use the Grafana Grizzly Playbook this is automatically done for you.

Tags

Tag	What it does
`grafana_grizzly`	Installs grizzly and applies the given resources
`grafana_grizzly:apply`	Applies the given resources

Mandatory Role Variables

Variable	Description
`grafana_grizzly__grafana_service_account_login`	The login for a Grafana service account with a „Admin“ token. The password will be automatically generated by Grafana and therefore cannot be set here. Set it manually according to the output during the Ansible run.

Example:

# mandatory
grafana_grizzly__grafana_service_account_login:
  username: 'grizzly'
  password: 'linuxfabrik'

Optional Role Variables

Variable	Description	Default Value
`grafana_grizzly__grafana_url`	The URL under which Grafana is reachable	`'{{ grafana__root_url }}'`
`grafana_grizzly__version`	The version of Grizzly to install. Possible options: `'latest'`, or any from https://github.com/grafana/grizzly/releases.	`'v0.2.0'`

Hints:

20240624 we can’t use „latest“, because then we get annoying errors like: "Providers: Grafana - active, Mimir - inactive (mimir address is not set), Synthetic Monitoring - inactive (stack id is not set)'"
v0.2.0 is the last known good version to use for the way we how we deploy grizzly dashboards and datasources

Example:

# optional
grafana_grizzly__grafana_url: 'http://localhost:3000'
grafana_grizzly__version: 'v0.2.0'

License

The Unlicense

Author Information

Linuxfabrik GmbH, Zurich