ansible role grafana-kiosk

Ansible role to deploy the grafana-kiosk from github.com/grafana/grafana-kiosk.

example playbook

tbd.

variables

Here you find some basic explainations what the variables do. Remeber that you can find a complete list of variables in the defaults Folder.

• User to launch grafana-kiosk (e.g. pi):

grafana_kiosk:
  user: "{{ ansible_user }}"

• The grafana-kiosk RELEASE we using:

grafana_kiosk:
  git_release: 'v1.0.2'

• The URL where the grafana-kiosk repo is located:

grafana_kiosk:
  git_url: 'https://github.com/grafana/grafana-kiosk'

• Should we install the required packages (like chromium):

grafana_kiosk:
  install_requirements: true

• The required packages we install:

grafana_kiosk:
  required_packages:
    - chromium
    - unclutter

• Install r update the packages? (use latest to upgrade packages)

grafana_kiosk:
  install_state: 'present'

• What architecture are you running on? (Used for downloading the binary):

grafana_kiosk:
  architecture: 'autodetect'

• Here you can set the config of grafana-kiosk:

grafana_kiosk:
  general:
    kiosk_mode: full
    autofit: true
    lxde: true
    lxde_home: "/home/{{ ansible_user }}"
  target:
    login_method: anon
    username: user
    password: changeme
    playlist: false
    URL: https://play.grafana.org
    ignore_certificate_errors: false

• Should we create and enable a systemd job?

grafana_kiosk:
  manage_systemd: true

• We need to set the correct DISPLAY varriable!

grafana_kiosk:
  display: DISPLAY=:0

• should we enable autologin for lightdm? (If you are using a raspberry pi, please do this via raspi-config!)

grafana_kiosk:
  lightdm_autologin: false

• perform basic versionscheck? (recomended to set to true)

submodules_versioncheck: false