Installation

Distributed deployment using ansible-role-for-splunk?

mickey
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I successfully installed splunk using the ansible-role-for-splunk one a single machine. It worked as expected. I am trying now to deploy a distributed splunk system (7 VMs in total). I prepared the inventory based on https://github.com/splunk/ansible-role-for-splunk/blob/master/environments/production/inventory.yml. when i ran the playbook, the bahviour is 7 individual installations of splunk instead of a distributed installation with indexer cluster, search head etc. My understanding was that based on the group name in the inventory, ansible role will install only the required components. Is it not true?

I am posting my playbook and inventory file (as first 2 replies). thanks

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mickey
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my understand is that the above ansible role will install splunk on al the nodes and based on the configurationf passed to the node, the node can play a different role (indexer, cluster manager etc.)

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mickey
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Here is the inventory file:

all:
  children:
    full:
      children:
        clustermanager:
          hosts:
            lab-splunk-util:

        licensemaster:
          hosts:
            lab-splunk-util:

        # Distributed Management Console
        dmc:
          hosts:
            lab-splunk-util:

        deploymentserver:
          hosts:
            lab-splunk-depl:

        #Search head
        search:
          children:
            searchhead:
              hosts:
                lab-splunk-sh:

        heavyforwarder:
          hosts:
            lab-splunk-hf:

        indexer:
          hosts:
            lab-splunk-idx0:
            lab-splunk-idx1:
            lab-splunk-idx2:
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mickey
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Here is the playbook. Note that I installed the role ansible-role-for-splunk.

---
- hosts: all
  become: true
  tasks:
    - name: Install or Upgrade Splunk
      include_role:
        name: ansible-role-for-splunk
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