NGINX Controller Data Forwarder Role

This repository has been archived. There will likely be no further development on the project and security vulnerabilities may be unaddressed.

Manage data forwarder settings with NGINX Controller.

Requirements

NGINX Controller

Role Variables

Required Variables

controller.fqdn - FQDN of the NGINX Controller instance

controller.auth_token - Authentication token for NGINX Controller

nginx_controller_forwarder.metadata.name - name of the data forwarder

Template Variables

This role has multiple template related variables. The descriptions and defaults for all these variables can be found in vars/main.yml

Dependencies

Example Playbook

To use this role you can create a playbook such as the following (let's name it nginx_controller_forwarder.yaml for the purposes of this example).

- hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: no

  vars:
    nginx_controller_user_email: "user@example.com" # Required by nginx_controller_generate_token role
    nginx_controller_user_password: "mySecurePassword" # Required by nginx_controller_generate_token role
    nginx_controller_fqdn: "controller.mydomain.com"
    nginx_controller_validate_certs: false

  tasks:
    - name: Retrieve the NGINX Controller auth token
      include_role:
        name: nginxinc.nginx_controller_generate_token

    - name: Configure the user role
      include_role:
        name: nginxinc.nginx_controller_forwarder
      vars:
        nginx_controller_forwarder:
          metadata:
            name:  # the name of the data forwarder
            displayName:   # a friendly display name for the data forwarder (spaces and special characters allowed)
            description:  # a description of the data forwarder
            tags:   # an array of tags
            - tagOne
            - tagTwo
          desiredState:
            integrationRef:  # reference to an existing Integration ( target URI and credential )
              ref: "/platform/integrations/splunk-demo"
            streams:
            -
              inputDataType: "metrics"
              outputFormat: "splunk"
              selector: ""

You can then run ansible-playbook nginx_controller_forwarder.yaml to execute the playbook.

Alternatively, you can also pass/override any variables at run time using the --extra-vars or -e flag like so ansible-playbook nginx_controller_forwarder.yaml -e "nginx_controller_user_email=user@company.com nginx_controller_user_password=notsecure nginx_controller_fqdn=controller.example.local nginx_controller_validate_certs=false"

You can also pass/override any variables by passing a yaml file containing any number of variables like so ansible-playbook nginx_controller_forwarder.yaml -e "@nginx_controller_forwarder_vars.yaml"

License

Apache License, Version 2.0

Author Information

Brian Ehlert

© NGINX, Inc. 2020