cribl-workshops

The goal of this project is to provide a relatively quick and easy way to provide custom workshops with Cribl Stream and Cribl Edge.

The python scripts spin up an arbitrary number of EC2 hosts and create a hosts.yml file. An Ansible playbook takes it from there to deploy Docker et al, then your choice from [one] custom docker-compose.yml file will spin up a Cribl Stream Leader node and a Cribl Worker node on each host.

How to get started

• If you have Git, clone the repo.

  git clone https://github.com/berthayes/cribl-workshops.git
  cd cribl-workshops
  

• If you don't have Git, download the .zip file, unzip it and get in there.

• Edit the yak_shaving.conf config file

• Spin up some EC2 hosts

  python3 create_aws_instances.py -n 3
  

• Consider how long it might take to spin up this hardware. Think about it. Have you?

• Create an Ansible hosts inventory file

  python3 create_hosts_dot_yaml.py
  

• Take a look at your new hosts.yml file as a sanity check

  cat hosts.yml
  

• Check for connectivity and that Ansible works

  ansible -i hosts.yml -m ping all
  

• Install dependencies and whatnot on each host. (This is a good time to get up and stretch your legs.)

  ansible-playbook -i hosts.yml all.yml
  

• Each host is now running Cribl Stream with the Leader Node's Web UI available on port 19000.

• Log in with default credentials admin:admin

• Accept the license agreement

• Change your password