ansible-elk

Ansible Playbook for setting up the ELK/EFK Stack and Filebeat client on remote hosts

What does it do?

• Automated deployment of a full ELK or EFK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash/Fluentd, Kibana)
  • Uses Nginx as a reverse proxy for Kibana
  • Generates SSL certificates for Filebeat or Logstash-forwarder
  • Adds either iptables or firewalld rules if firewall is active
  • Tunes Elasticsearch heapsize to half your memory, to a max of 32G
  • Deploys ELK clients using SSL and Filebeat for Logstash (Default)
  • Deploys rsyslog if Fluentd is chosen over Logstash, picks up the same set of OpenStack-related logs in /var/log/*
  • All service ports can be modified in install/group_vars/all.yml
  • Optionally install curator

Requirements

• RHEL7 or CentOS7+ server/client with no modifications
  • Fedora 23 or higher needs to have yum python2 python2-dnf libselinux-python packages.
    • You can run this against Fedora clients prior to running Ansible ELK:
    • ansible fedora-client-01 -u root -m shell -i hosts -a "dnf install yum python2 libsemanage-python python2-dnf -y"
• Deployment tested on Ansible 1.9.4 and 2.0.2

Notes

• Sets the nginx htpasswd to admin/admin initially
• nginx ports default to 80/8080 for Kibana and SSL cert retrieval (configurable)
• Uses OpenJDK for Java
• It's fairly quick, takes around 3minutes on test VM
• Filebeat templating is focused around OpenStack service logs
• Fluentd can be substituted for the default Logstash
  • Set logging_backend: fluentd in group_vars/all.yml
• Install curator by setting install_curator_tool: true in install/group_vars/all.yml

ELK Server Instructions

• Clone repo and setup your hosts file

git clone https://github.com/sadsfae/ansible-elk
cd ansible-elk
sed -i 's/host-01/elkserver/' hosts
sed -i 's/host-02/elkclient/' hosts

• Run the playbook

ansible-playbook -i hosts install/elk.yml

• Navigate to the server at http://yourhost
• Default login is admin/admin

ELK Client Instructions

• Run the client playbook against the generated elk_server variable

ansible-playbook -i hosts install/elk-client.yml --extra-vars 'elk_server=X.X.X.X'

• You can view a deployment video here:

File Hierarchy

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├── hosts
└── install
    ├── elk-client.yml
    ├── elk.yml
    ├── group_vars
    │   └── all.yml
    └── roles
        ├── curator
        │   ├── files
        │   │   └── curator.repo
        │   └── tasks
        │       └── main.yml
        ├── elasticsearch
        │   ├── files
        │   │   ├── elasticsearch.in.sh
        │   │   └── elasticsearch.repo
        │   └── tasks
        │       └── main.yml
        ├── filebeat
        │   ├── files
        │   │   └── filebeat.repo
        │   ├── tasks
        │   │   └── main.yml
        │   └── templates
        │       ├── filebeat.yml.j2
        │       └── rsyslog-openstack.conf.j2
        ├── fluentd
        │   ├── files
        │   │   ├── filebeat-index-template.json
        │   │   └── fluentd.repo
        │   ├── tasks
        │   │   └── main.yml
        │   └── templates
        │       └── td-agent.conf.j2
        ├── kibana
        │   ├── files
        │   │   ├── filebeat-dashboards.zip
        │   │   ├── kibana.repo
        │   │   └── logstash.repo
        │   └── tasks
        │       └── main.yml
        ├── logstash
        │   ├── files
        │   │   ├── 01-lumberjack-input.conf
        │   │   ├── 10-syslog.conf
        │   │   ├── 10-syslog-filter.conf
        │   │   ├── 30-elasticsearch-output.conf
        │   │   ├── 30-lumberjack-output.conf
        │   │   ├── filebeat-index-template.json
        │   │   └── logstash.repo
        │   ├── tasks
        │   │   └── main.yml
        │   └── templates
        │       ├── 02-beats-input.conf.j2
        │       └── openssl_extras.cnf.j2
        └── nginx
            ├── tasks
            │   └── main.yml
            └── templates
                ├── kibana.conf.j2
                └── nginx.conf.j2

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