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 recipe.
- These tasks install Alloy from the package repositories.
The tasks target Linux systems from the following families:
- Debian, including Ubuntu
- RedHat Enterprise Linux, including Fedora
- Amazon Linux
Steps
To add Alloy to a host:
Add the following resources to your Chef recipe to add the Grafana package repositories to your system:
Add the following resources to install and enable the
alloy
service: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 configuration file for the service to use.