[Help Needed] OpenSearch/Dashboards in Ansible

[peterzhuamazon]

[Help Needed] OpenSearch/Dashboards in Ansible.
We invite communities to help us adding more distros of OpenSearch/Dashboards.
We recently have Helm OpenSearch available with the help of community, and we would love more community contributions.

[DandyDeveloper]

@peterzhuamazon Can you better explain what this issue entails?

Do we want a playbook or a module that automatically deploys OpenSearch via Ansible?

I think if contribution is expected, we should be able to clearly define expectations to someone wanting to contribute.

[peterzhuamazon]

Hi @DandyDeveloper I think we are looking to have a playbook to deploy OpenSearch/Dashboards.
There are expectations from community to playbook since ODFE and there is a community maintained one: https://github.com/saravanan30erd/opendistro_standalone_installation

Would love to see this also present in OpenSearch/Dashboards.

@saravanan30erd since you have worked on ODFE version and still maintain it, would you mind also take part in the discussion and evaluate the possibility of this?

Thanks.

[saravanan30erd]

@peterzhuamazon Sure, I can create ansible playbooks for OpenSearch & Dashboards installation. This one is created for Centos & RHEL, so I can create playbooks for Centos & RHEL initially and we can eventually support all other distributions(Ubuntu, etc,..).

Is it possible to create separate repo (opensearch-ansible or something) as I expect it might get big and complex going forward?

[peterzhuamazon]

Thanks @saravanan30erd for the responses, here are a few points to add on:

1. CentOS/RHEL is good to start with we can expand later like you said.
2. The separate repo has been mentioned multiple times in the past weeks by community, and we are currently discussing about it. As of now, please just create a separate folder for it in opensearch-devops repo.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks.

[peterzhuamazon]

Hi @saravanan30erd It has been some days since we last talk.
Just want to check in to see if there is any progress on this?
Hope you are doing well. Thanks.

[peterzhuamazon]

Hi @saravanan30erd sorry to bother again on this.
Just want to check in to see if there is any progress on this?
Hope you are doing well. Thanks.

Also, if you dont know we have https://github.com/opensearch-project/helm-charts ready for standalone repo #53.
We are still in talk to get an ansible repo, but you are welcome to contribute to this opensearch-devops 1st.
We can always migrate to the new repo once it is ready.

Thanks.

[saravanan30erd]

@peterzhuamazon sure, I recently added few more plugins in opendistro repo which I will test it and merge to master today. I will also start the work for opensearch after that.

[peterzhuamazon]

Thanks @saravanan30erd that sounds great, let us know if you need any help.

cc: @bbarani

[saravanan30erd]

@peterzhuamazon

I have split the task into many phases, currently I have completed the single node opensearch setup.

I will work on below tasks in upcoming days,

• opensearch multi-node cluster setup
• opensearch dashbaords Installation
• Performance analyzer plugin configuration

please check it.

[peterzhuamazon]

Thanks @saravanan30erd for the 1st PR, will involve folks to review this one.
Thanks.

[prudhvigodithi]

OpenSearch ansible-playbook repo is up with ansible playbooks for both OS and OSD.
https://github.com/opensearch-project/ansible-playbook
Closing this issue, please re-open if required.
Thank you