Install TIG Stack by Packer, Terraform, Ansible

Provisiong TIG Stack by Packer, Terraform. Ansible

Build VM Image by Packer,
Provisioning VM by Terraform,
Deploy telegraf agent by Ansible

Evironment

Infra

• Azure Cloud

Virtual Machine (Monitor Server) Spec

• SKU: Standard_DS2_v2 (2 vCPU, 7 GiB Mem)
• OSL Linux
• Distro: Ubuntu 20.04 (Azure Image URN: Canonical:0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal:20_04-lts-gen2:20.04.202307010)

Tool

• Packer > v1.9.1
• Terraform > v1.4.6
• Ansible stable latest
• Shell Script (Bash)

Softwares

• influxdb v1.8.10
• telegraf v1.27.1
• grafana stable latest
• ansilbe stable latest

Usage

Prerequire

• Azure Account
• macOS or WSL2 Terminal, VSCode
• packer, terraform in Local PC

Step

1. Packer build monitoring vm image
2. Terraform provisioning virtual machine
3. Ansible deploy telegraf

Result

Grafana Dashboard (import 928)

Release Notes

• v3.0
  • Simplify steps
    1. packer build
    2. terraform provisiong
    3. ansible deploy
  • Use shell script
    • packer (install software(influxdb, telegraf, grafana, ansible))
    • terraform: custom data (edit telegraf conf)
  • Update software version
    • InfluxdB v1.8.10
    • Telegraf v1.27.1
• v2.0
  • TIG Stack by Packer, Terraform and Ansible
  • Packer -> Build Image
    1. Base Image -> Ubuntu 18.04
    2. Software -> InfluxDB, Grafana, Ansible
    3. Make ansible working directory
  • Terraform -> Provisioning Moniotoirng Server
  • Ansible -> Deploy Telegraft Agent to Target Servers
• v1.0
  • TIG Stack by Terraform and Ansible
  • Terraform -> Provisioning Monitor Server
  • Ansible -> playbook_1: Deploy InfluxDB, Grafana, Ansible to Monitor Server
  • Ansible -> playbook_2: Deploy Telegraf Agents to Nonitoring Target Servers