Using terraform with docker to build a TICK stack

Background:

I got bored one night and wanted to see if it was hard to use docker with terraform instead of just running the docker commands. After a while I really like the terraform state with docker because I could make a small change and re-run terraform apply to make a real time fixes.

Requirements

1. Terraform
2. Docker

Getting started

Clone the repo https://github.com/digikin/tf-docker-tick_stack.git and change into the directory.
You will have to change the locals variable on line 76 to whatever your absolute path is in your environment.

Commands

1. terraform init
2. terraform plan
3. terraform apply then type yes -> Enter a value: yes

Chronograf and dashboards

I have telegraf configured to pull all the docker metrics but I couldn't figure out how to automatically get the docker.json dashboard to autopopulate.

Visit

http://localhost:8888

Click the dashboard button on the left menu.

Select Import Dashboard at the top right menu.

Upload the docker.json file included in the repo under tf-docker-tick_stack/config/docker.json

Enjoy!!

Cleanup

1. terraform destroy then type yes -> Enter a value: yes