Ansible is an IT automation tool. It can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate more advanced IT tasks such as continuous deployments or zero downtime rolling updates.
TiDB-Ansible is a TiDB cluster deployment tool developed by PingCAP, based on Ansible playbook. TiDB-Ansible enables you to quickly deploy a new TiDB cluster which includes PD, TiDB, TiKV, and the cluster monitoring modules.
You can use the TiDB-Ansible configuration file to set up the cluster topology, completing all operation tasks with one click, including:
- Initializing the system, including creating the user for deployment, setting up the hostname, etc.
- Deploying the components
- Rolling update, including module survival detection
- Cleaning data
- Cleaning the environment
- Configuring monitoring modules
TiDB-Ansible is under the Apache 2.0 license.
