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Install Grafana Agent Flow with Puppet

You can use Puppet to install and manage Grafana Agent Flow.

Before you begin

  • These steps assume you already have a working Puppet setup.
  • You can add the following manifest to any new or existing module.
  • The manifest installs Grafana Agent Flow from the package repositories. It targets Linux systems from the following families:
    • Debian (including Ubuntu)
    • RedHat Enterprise Linux (including Fedora)

Steps

To add Grafana Agent Flow to a host:

  1. Ensure that the following module dependencies are declared and installed:

    json 
    {
"name": "puppetlabs/apt",
"version_requirement": ">= 4.1.0 <= 7.0.0"
},
{
"name": "puppetlabs/yumrepo_core",
"version_requirement": "<= 2.0.0"
}

  2. Create a new Puppet manifest with the following class to add the Grafana package repositories, install the grafana-agent-flow package, and run the service:

    ruby 
    class grafana_agent::grafana_agent_flow () {
  case $::os['family'] {
    'debian': {
      apt::source { 'grafana':
        location => 'https://apt.grafana.com/',
        release  => '',
        repos    => 'stable main',
        key      => {
          id     => 'B53AE77BADB630A683046005963FA27710458545',
          source => 'https://apt.grafana.com/gpg.key',
        },
      } -> package { 'grafana-agent-flow':
        require => Exec['apt_update'],
      } -> service { 'grafana-agent-flow':
        ensure    => running,
        name      => 'grafana-agent-flow',
        enable    => true,
        subscribe => Package['grafana-agent-flow'],
      }
    }
    'redhat': {
      yumrepo { 'grafana':
        ensure   => 'present',
        name     => 'grafana',
        descr    => 'grafana',
        baseurl  => 'https://packages.grafana.com/oss/rpm',
        gpgkey   => 'https://packages.grafana.com/gpg.key',
        enabled  => '1',
        gpgcheck => '1',
        target   => '/etc/yum.repo.d/grafana.repo',
      } -> package { 'grafana-agent-flow':
      } -> service { 'grafana-agent-flow':
        ensure    => running,
        name      => 'grafana-agent-flow',
        enable    => true,
        subscribe => Package['grafana-agent-flow'],
      }
    }
    default: {
      fail("Unsupported OS family: (${$::os['family']})")
    }
  }
}

  3. To use this class in a module, add the following line to the module’s init.pp file:

    ruby 
    include grafana_agent::grafana_agent_flow

Configuration

The grafana-agent-flow package installs a default configuration file that doesn’t send telemetry anywhere.

The default configuration file location is /etc/grafana-agent-flow.river. You can replace this file with your own configuration, or create a new configuration file for the service to use.

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