Ansible Playbook for Grafana/Prometheus/AlertManager/Loki + Node-Exporter/Cadvisor Deployment in Docker containers

• Requires Ubuntu 20.04 server with sudo privileges for remote user
• Ansible 8.0 or higher
• Tested on Ubuntu 20.04 server

• Installs Grafana, Prometheus, AlertManager, Loki, Node-Exporter, Cadvisor in Docker containers
• Configures Grafana with Prometheus, Loki, AlertManager datasources
• Configures Grafana with basic dashboards
• Configures AlertManager with email notification
• Configures Prometheus with Node-Exporter, Cadvisor and Docker SD
• Configures Loki so Docker logs are collected and stored in Loki

When playbook is finished, you can access Grafana at http://<your-server-address>:3000 with default admin user admin and password set in GRAFANA_ADMIN_PASSWORD or secrets_file.enc.

• Set inventory file production.ini with your remote host
• Set env variables for GRAFANA_ADMIN_PASSWORD and ALERTMANAGER_EMAIL_PASSWORD
• Alternatively, you can use ansible-vault to set GRAFANA_ADMIN_PASSWORD (stored in roles/common/files/secrets_file.enc) using ansible-playbook ... -e secrets_file.enc --ask-vault-pass site.yml
• Set appropriate variables for
• Run ansible-playbook -i production.ini site.yml

• Default variables for role stored in roles/common/defaults/main.yml