Ansible Role: Elasticsearch Curator

An Ansible Role that installs Elasticsearch Curator on RedHat/CentOS or Debian/Ubuntu.

Requirements

None, but it's a lot more helpful if you have Elasticsearch running somewhere :)

On RedHat/CentOS, make sure you have the EPEL repository configured, so the python-pip package can be installed. You can install the EPEL repo by simply adding geerlingguy.repo-epel to your playbook's roles.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

elasticsearch_curator_cron_jobs:
  - {
    name: "Delete indices older than 30 days (daily).",
    job: "curator delete --older-than 30",
    minute: "0",
    hour: "1"
  }
  - {
    name: "Close indices older than 14 days (daily).",
    job: "curator close --older-than 14",
    minute: "30",
    hour: "1"
  }

A list of cron jobs to use curator to prune, optimize, close, and otherwise maintain your Elasticsearch indexes. If you're connecting to an Elasticsearch server on a different host/port than localhost and 9200, you need to add --host [hostname] and/or --port [port] to the jobs. More documentation is available on the Elasticsearch Curator wiki. You can add any of minute, hour, day, weekday, and month to the cron jobs—values that are not explicitly set will default to *.

Dependencies

• geerlingguy.repo-epel (RedHat/CentOS only)

Example Playbook

- hosts: search
  roles:
    - { role: geerlingguy.elasticsearch-curator }

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2014 by Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps.