A simple playbook for installing, configuring and starting a Sensu Go agent

sensu-agent-playbook.yaml

---
- hosts: all
  become: yes

  tasks:

    # Sensu, agents run on dom0

    - name: PGP signing key for Sensu packages
      apt_key:
        id: A5BC3FB70A3F7426
        url: https://packagecloud.io/sensu/stable/gpgkey
        state: present

    - name: PGP signing key for Sensu community packages
      apt_key:
        id: 6A8D4DDAE50F9E23
        url: https://packagecloud.io/sensu/community/gpgkey
        state: present

    - name: Install Sensu packages repository
      apt_repository:
        repo: "deb https://packagecloud.io/sensu/stable/ubuntu/ {{ ansible_distribution_release }} main"
        state: present
        filename: sensu-stable

    - name: Install Sensu Ruby Plugins repository
      apt_repository:
        repo: "deb https://packagecloud.io/sensu/community/ubuntu/ {{ ansible_distribution_release }} main"
        state: present
        filename: sensu-community

    - name: Install Sensu Agent
      apt:
        name: sensu-go-agent
        state: latest
        update_cache: yes

    - name: Install Sensu CLI tool
      apt:
        name: sensu-go-cli
        state: latest

    - name: Install Sensu Plugins Ruby package
      apt:
        name: sensu-plugins-ruby
        state: latest
        update_cache: yes

    - name: Basic configuration file for Sensu agent
      copy:
        dest: "/etc/sensu/agent.yml"
        force: no
        content: |
          backend-url:
            - "ws://INTERNALLY_ACCESSIBLE_ENDPOINT:8081"
          agent-managed-entity: true
          statsd-event-handlers:
            - influxdb
            - graphite

    - name: Restart sensu
      service:
        name: sensu-agent
        enabled: yes
        state: restarted