Hi Jinesh. thank you!
On Tuesday, January 31, 2017 at 2:55:38 PM UTC, Jinesh Choksi wrote: > > Hi Rui, > > You can find a role for installing Prometheus here: > https://github.com/kozmagabor/ansible-prometheus > > Which also has a complementary role to setup the mongodb exporter: > https://github.com/William-Yeh/ansible-mongodb-exporter > > I found both of the above via Ansible Galaxy: > https://galaxy.ansible.com/kozmagabor/prometheus/ > > Ansible Galaxy has several roles available for installing Prometheus. > > You could hence avoid creating your own roles and use the above or jump > start your own roles based on the above. > > To answer your question, it looks cleaner if you split into multiple roles > instead of polluting the Prometheus role with something which is not a hard > dependency. > > Regards, > Jinesh > > On Tuesday, 31 January 2017 13:50:27 UTC, Rui Goncalves wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I have no experience writing ansible roles. At the moment I'm trying to >> write a few ansible roles, but I'm not sure how to separate >> responsibilities. >> >> I have two roles. >> - prometheus - installs and configures prometheus. >> - mongodb - Installs and configures mongodb database. >> >> Prometheus needs to be configured in order to scrap metrics about >> mongoDB. Basically, it's necessary to put a file on a directory where the >> prometheus server is installed, containing information about mongodb >> location, etc... the question is: Should I configure this on the prometheus >> role? It seems to me that I'm polluting the prometheus role with things >> that belong elsewhere. This way, I'm also coupling the prometheus role with >> a specific use case. It's recommended to create a separate role to >> configure mongodb location on prometheus? >> >> What's the best practice? >> >> Thanks, >> Rui >> >> >> >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/d4295b84-8677-4902-a16c-e52c03fd52b5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
