community.grafana.grafana_plugin – Manage Grafana plugins via grafana-cli

Note

This plugin is part of the community.grafana collection (version 1.2.3).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.grafana.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.grafana.grafana_plugin.

Synopsis

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
grafana_plugin_url
string
Full URL to the plugin zip file instead of downloading the file from https://grafana.com/api/plugins.
Requires grafana 4.6.x or later.
grafana_plugins_dir
string
Directory where the Grafana plugin will be installed.
If omitted, defaults to /var/lib/grafana/plugins.
grafana_repo
string
URL to the Grafana plugin repository.
If omitted, grafana-cli will use the default value: https://grafana.com/api/plugins.
name
string / required
Name of the plugin.
state
string
    Choices:
  • present
  • absent
Whether the plugin should be installed.
version
string
Version of the plugin to install.
Defaults to latest.

Examples

---
- name: Install/update Grafana piechart panel plugin
  community.grafana.grafana_plugin:
    name: grafana-piechart-panel
    version: latest
    state: present

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key Returned Description
version
string
always
version of the installed/removed/updated plugin.



Authors

  • Thierry Sallé (@seuf)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/grafana/grafana_plugin_module.html