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chef-kibana5

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Description

This cookbook installs and configures Kibana version 5.2.0 and above. This cookbook may work with Kibana 6.x.x, but no guarantee.

Requirements

Cookbooks

Platforms

Tested only on CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 16.04. Should work on any modern Linux OS with systemd.

Recipes

  • default.rb - Runs kibana5_install and kibana5_configure with default options.

Resources

kibana5_install

This resource installs Kibana 5 binaries.

Attributes

Attribute Description Type Default
name Simply name. Currently not used. String
version Version of Kibana. 5.2.0 and above are supported. String 5.6.16
install_method Installation method. Currently only release is supported. This means installation from official binaries provided by Elastic. String release
base_dir Base directory for Kibana binaries. String /opt/kibana
svc_user Kibana daemon user. String kibana
svc_group Kibana daemon group. String kibana

kibana5_configure

This resource configures Kibana daemon and main configuration file.

Attributes

Attribute Description Type Default
svc_name Name of the daemon String
svc_user Kibana daemon user. String kibana
svc_group Kibana daemon group. String kibana
configuration Hash with configuration file values. See examples. Hash
template_cookbook Override template from other cookbook. String kibana5

examples of configuration hashes:

{
  'server.port' => 5601,
  'server.host' => 'localhost',
  'elasticsearch.url' => 'http://localhost:9200',
}
{
  'server.port' => 5601,
  'server.host' => 'localhost',
  'server.name' => 'My-Kibana',
  'elasticsearch.url' => 'http://localhost:9200',
  'logging.dest' => '/var/log/kibana.log',
  'logging.verbose' => 'true',
  'elasticsearch.requestHeadersWhitelist' => '[ authorization ]',
}

Usage

It is recommended to use resources directly.

Examples

You may see examples in fixture cookbook: test/fixtures/kibana5-test/recipes/default.rb test/fixtures/kibana5-test/recipes/nginx.rb

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