minemeld-ansible

Ansible playbook for installing MineMeld on a Linux instance directly from the git repos. This is useful for development or installing MineMeld on Linux distributions where prebuilt MineMeld packages are not provided.

MineMeld version

By default this Ansible playbook installs MineMeld from the devel branch, that is the latest unstable version.

To install the latest stable release you can:

• or uncomment the minemeld_version and group_permissions variables in local.yml
• or specify an extra var while launching the playbook, using ansible-playbook -K -e "minemeld_version=master" -i 127.0.0.1, local.yml

Install from forks

If you have forked minemeld-core, minemeld-webui or minemeld-node-prototypes repos and you want to use the forks for development, you can edit the corresponding variables in local.yml file to specify the URL of a fork of the main MineMeld repos.

Howto on Ubuntu 14.04

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade # optional
$ sudo apt-get install -y gcc git python2.7-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev
$ wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
$ sudo -H python get-pip.py
$ sudo -H pip install ansible
$ git clone https://github.com/PaloAltoNetworks/minemeld-ansible.git
$ cd minemeld-ansible
$ ansible-playbook -K -i 127.0.0.1, local.yml
$ usermod -a -G minemeld <your user> # add your user to minemeld group, useful for development

Howto on Ubuntu 16.04

Support for Ubuntu 16.04 is still experimental

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade # optional
$ sudo apt-get install -y gcc git python-minimal python2.7-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev
$ wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
$ sudo -H python get-pip.py
$ sudo -H pip install ansible
$ git clone https://github.com/PaloAltoNetworks/minemeld-ansible.git
$ cd minemeld-ansible
$ ansible-playbook -K -i 127.0.0.1, local.yml
$ usermod -a -G minemeld <your user> # add your user to minemeld group, useful for development

Howto on CentOS 7/RHEL 7

Support for CentOS 7 and RHEL 7 is still experimental

$ sudo yum install -y wget git gcc python-devel libffi-devel openssl-devel
$ wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
$ sudo -H python get-pip.py
$ sudo -H pip install ansible
$ git clone https://github.com/PaloAltoNetworks/minemeld-ansible.git
$ cd minemeld-ansible
$ ansible-playbook -K -i 127.0.0.1, local.yml
$ usermod -a -G minemeld <your user> # add your user to minemeld group, useful for development

Check if everything is running

Check if all the MineMeld services are up and running:

$ sudo -u minemeld /opt/minemeld/engine/current/bin/supervisorctl -c /opt/minemeld/supervisor/config/supervisord.conf status
minemeld-engine                  RUNNING   pid 37583, uptime 1:10:12
minemeld-supervisord-listener    RUNNING   pid 37582, uptime 1:10:12
minemeld-traced                  RUNNING   pid 37584, uptime 1:10:12
minemeld-web                     RUNNING   pid 37585, uptime 1:10:12

Porting to a new distribution

Distribution specific tasks and variables are isolated in specific files. These files are dynamically loaded by the Ansible playbook based on the values of the ansible_distribution, ansible_distribution_version and ansible_distribution_major_version.

Check roles/infrastructure/vars and roles/minemeld/vars for examples.

Order

• {{ ansible_distribution }}-{{ ansible_distribution_version }}.yml
• {{ ansible_distribution }}-{{ ansible_distribution_major_version }}.yml
• {{ ansible_distribution }}.yml

Example: for Ubuntu 14.04 the playbook will look for Ubuntu-14.04.yml, then for Ubuntu-14.yml and then for Ubuntu.yml