InfluxDB

Chef cookbook to install and configure InfluxDB.

Support

Cookbook Version	InfluxDB Version
v5.x.x	>= v1.0.0
v4.4.1	< v1.0.0

Usage

To install InfluxDB and place its configuration file, include the influxdb::default recipe in your node's run_list. The default recipe installs the necessary dependencies to use the custom resources defined in this cookbook.

For rendering the config set the parameter under node['influxdb']['config']

default['influxdb']['config']['MyParameter'] = 'val'

Resources

The following gems are used by the custom resources and are installed by the default recipe:

• InfluxDB gem
• toml

This cookbook ships with five custom resources for managing the configuration file, users, databases, cluster admins, and retention policies:

influxdb_config

This resource writes a configuration file for InfluxDB based on the passed configuration hash:

influxdb_config node['influxdb']['config_file_path'] do
  config node['influxdb']['config']
  action :create
end

This resource is used by the default recipe to place the configuration defined in node['influxdb']['config'].

influxdb_database

Configures an InfluxDB database.

influxdb_database 'my_db' do
  action :create
end

influxdb_install

This resource sets up or removes the appropriate repositories and installs/removes the appropriate packages

influxdb_install 'influxdb' do
  arch_type 'amd64' # if undefined will auto detect
  include_repository true # default
  influxdb_key 'https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdb.key' # default
  action :install # default
end

influxdb_install 'influxdb' do
  action :remove
end

Note : InfluxDB Enterprise uses different version naming schema and is distributed in two packages: influxdb-data and influxdb-meta. Install it this way:

node.default['influxdb']['version'] = "1.3.5-c1.3.5"
node.default['influxdb']['download_urls'] = {
  'debian' => 'https://dl.influxdata.com/enterprise/releases',
  'rhel' => 'https://dl.influxdata.com/enterprise/releases'
}

influxdb_install 'influxdb-meta' do
  install_version node['influxdb']['version']
  install_type 'file'
  checksum '87d99ba4a90487ee1a9'
  action [:install]
end

influxdb_install 'influxdb-data' do
  install_version node['influxdb']['version']
  install_type 'file'
  checksum '4c17e7d3bac8f565c140'
  action [:install]
end

influxdb_user

This resources configures a user to interact with InfluxDB databases.

influxdb_user 'user' do
  password 'changeme'
  databases ['my_db']
  action :create
end

influxdb_admin

This resources configures a cluster admin to interact with InfluxDB.

influxdb_admin 'admin' do
  password 'changeme'
  action :create
end

influxdb_retention_policy

This resources configures a retention policy on a given database. The name attribute is not used, the database and policy name provide the unique names used by InfluxDB.

Note: in v1.0.0+ there is an auto-generated default profile called autogen. To make your policy the default, you will want to set default parameter true.

influxdb_retention_policy "foodb default retention policy" do
  policy_name 'default'
  database 'foodb'
  duration '1w'
  replication 1
  action :create
end

influxdb_continuous_query

This resources configures a continuous query on a given database.

If you need rewrite continuous query if it already exist set rewrite parametr to true.

influxdb_continuous_query "test_continuous_query" do
  database 'foodb'
  rewrite false
  query 'SELECT min(mouse) INTO min_mouse FROM zoo GROUP BY time(30m)'
  action :create
end

Client Libraries

Right now, this cookbook only supports the Ruby and CLI client libraries so as not to add too many dependencies. That might change in the near future. By default both flavors are disabled. Enable e.g. Ruby via:

node.default['influxdb']['client']['ruby']['enable'] = true

Finally include the influxdb::client in your node's run_list to install the clients.

Tests

To run tests, install all dependencies with bundler:

bundle install

Then to run tests:

rake # Quick tests only (rubocop + minitest)
rake test:complete # All tests (rubocop + minitest + kitchen)

Release Steps

rake publish

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license

Maintainers

Ben Dang me@bdang.it

E Camden Fisher fish@fishnix.net