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Clearing Rails Log Files on AWS with Ansible

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Clearing Rails Log Files on AWS with Ansible

Dec 2, 2016

If you are reading this and you've read more than a few things I've written then you know that I'm, well, a wordy son of a bitch. I mean come on – did you see the post on AWS Partition Resizing? I took like 7800 words to say "can't do it" – apologies.

Anyway the digression into wordiness is because like me, Rails log files are wordy son's of bitches – the number of times in my career that I've had to log into a box and do the log dance:

bundle exec rake log:clear

has to be measured in the hundreds if not thousands. This morning I finally got mad enough to automate it with Ansible. Here's how:

playbook: playbook_logs_clear_rails_logs.yml

#
# MONDAY ansible-playbook -i ec2.py playbook_logs_clear_rails_logs.yml
# ansible-playbook -i inventories/production2 playbook_logs_clear_rails_logs.yml
#
---
  
- hosts: worker
  become: yes
  remote_user: ubuntu
  gather_facts: true
  vars: 
    - app_path: /var/www/apps/banks/current
  roles:
    - { role: logs_clear_rails_logs, tags: logs}

role: 
folder: logs_clear_rails_logs
file: tasks/main.yml

---
- name: logs_clear_rails_logs
  shell: "cd  && bundle exec rake log:clear"

Here are the results:

ansible-playbook -i inventories/production2 playbook_logs_clear_rails_logs.yml

PLAY [worker] ******************************************************************

TASK [setup] *******************************************************************
ok: [fiworkerbig]
ok: [fiworker5]
ok: [fiworker3]
ok: [fiworker6]
ok: [fiworker4]
ok: [fiworker9]
ok: [fiworker8]
ok: [fiworker11]
ok: [fiworker10]
ok: [fiworker7]

TASK [logs_clear_rails_logs : logs_clear_rails_logs] ***************************
changed: [fiworker3]
changed: [fiworker6]
changed: [fiworker5]
changed: [fiworker4]
changed: [fiworkerbig]
changed: [fiworker7]
changed: [fiworker8]
changed: [fiworker9]
changed: [fiworker10]
changed: [fiworker11]

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
fiworker10                 : ok=2    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0
fiworker11                 : ok=2    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0
fiworker3                  : ok=2    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0
fiworker4                  : ok=2    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0
fiworker5                  : ok=2    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0
fiworker6                  : ok=2    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0
fiworker7                  : ok=2    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0
fiworker8                  : ok=2    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0
fiworker9                  : ok=2    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0
fiworkerbig                : ok=2    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0

Right now this is working with a static inventory file. If anyone expresses interest, on Monday, I'll publish a revised version which uses the python boto module to clear log files based on all boxes on EC2 dynamically matching a criteria like a name tag.

Posted In: #aws #ansible #logs #rails


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