Infrastructure Agent Ansible

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Ansible role for the New Relic infrastructure agent  

An Ansible role that can be used to install and/or configure the New Relic Infrastructure Agent and install New Relic Infrastructure OHIs.

Installation

Use the following command to download the latest version of the New Relic role:

`ansible-galaxy install newrelic.newrelic-infra`

Getting Started

To use the `newrelic.newrelic-infra` role directly in a playbook, simply [include the role in your playbook](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_reuse_roles.html#using-roles). For example,

# myplaybook.yml
---
- hosts: webservers
  roles:
    - role: newrelic.newrelic-infra
      vars:
        nrinfragent_config:
          license_key: 12345

To require `newrelic.newrelic-infra` as a role depencency your own role, [add a dependency in the meta/main.yml of your role](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_reuse_roles.html#using-role-dependencies). For example,

# roles/myapp/meta/main.yml
---
dependencies:
  - role: newrelic.newrelic-infra

Usage

This role can be used for the following interactions with the New Relic Infrastructure Agent.

• Install the agent via OS package manager
• Install the agent via tarball (Linux only)
• Insta