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Documentation Grafana Alloy Set up Install Chef

Install Grafana Alloy with Chef

You can use Chef to install and manage Alloy.

Before you begin

• These steps assume you already have a working Chef setup.
• You can add the following resources to any new or existing recipe.
• These tasks install Alloy from the package repositories. The tasks target Linux systems from the following families:
  • Debian (including Ubuntu)
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux
  • Amazon Linux
  • Fedora

Steps

To add Alloy to a host:

1. Add the following resources to your Chef recipe to add the Grafana package repositories to your system:

   ruby Copy

   if platform_family?('debian', 'rhel', 'amazon', 'fedora')
     if platform_family?('debian')
       remote_file '/etc/apt/keyrings/grafana.gpg' do
         source 'https://apt.grafana.com/gpg.key'
         mode '0644'
         action :create
         end
   
       file '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/grafana.list' do
         content "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/grafana.gpg] https://apt.grafana.com/ stable main"
         mode '0644'
         notifies :update, 'apt_update[update apt cache]', :immediately
       end
   
       apt_update 'update apt cache' do
         action :nothing
       end
     elsif platform_family?('rhel', 'amazon', 'fedora')
       yum_repository 'grafana' do
         description 'grafana'
         baseurl 'https://rpm.grafana.com/oss/rpm'
         gpgcheck true
         gpgkey 'https://rpm.grafana.com/gpg.key'
         enabled true
         action :create
         notifies :run, 'execute[add-rhel-key]', :immediately
       end
   
       execute 'add-rhel-key' do
         command "rpm --import https://rpm.grafana.com/gpg.key"
         action :nothing
       end
     end
   else
       fail "The #{node['platform_family']} platform is not supported."
   end

2. Add the following resources to install and enable the alloy service:

   ruby Copy

   package 'alloy' do
     action :install
     flush_cache [ :before ] if platform_family?('amazon', 'rhel', 'fedora')
     notifies :restart, 'service[alloy]', :delayed
   end
   
   service 'alloy' do
     service_name 'alloy'
     action [:enable, :start]
   end

Configuration

The alloy package installs a default configuration file that doesn’t send telemetry anywhere.

The default configuration file location is /etc/alloy/config.alloy. You can replace this file with your own configuration or create a new configuration file for the service to use.

Next steps

• Configure Alloy