Ubuntu support

[amoczygemba]

Could you please add an ansible script for ubuntu?

[dbertha]

I'm also interested in debian compatibility !

[JSzaszvari]

+1 For Debian

I'll take ubuntu as well.

[sadsfae]

Thanks for filing this. I'd like to extend Debian/Ubuntu functionality into ansible-elk but it's fairly low-priority given I'm working on a whole lot of other stuff. Ideally we'd just build in OS detection using Ansible facts. I don't know when I'll have time to work on it but I think it's a great idea and something I will plan for in the future.

[knechtionscoding]

@sadsfae I figured I would start on this now, as I need to support some debian based systems. I figured I would start by supporting beats installation on them and then extend the ELK installation to be able to be installed on Ubuntu/Debian. Seem like a good road map?

[knechtionscoding]

See PR #48 for more info on the Ubuntu/Debian support for beats installation. Will be looking into ELK installation support.

[arunvsankar]

It would be great if we have the Ubuntu support as this is found more stable in production systems and more supported on certain applications than Linux or CentOS

[sadsfae]

I think a reasonable approach here is to first start with ubuntu client support for

It would be great if we have the Ubuntu support as this is found more stable in production systems and more supported on certain applications than Linux or CentOS

While this definitely isn't true (and Ubuntu is Linux) I think a good first step is to provide Ubuntu client support (for clients / beats). Actual Ubuntu/Debian support for ELK/EFK may come later, depending on any LSB differences in configuration files.

I'll need to setup a few testing Debian/Ubuntu VMs to get this going as I don't use it in my day-to-day.

[sadsfae]

Hey folks I've started adding Ubuntu and Debian support (starting with ELK 9.x) in the development branch. I haven't tested this yet though, I need to test this in VMs and will do so when I find time.

For now if anyone wants to test against development branch it should point to ELK 9.x, I'm first going to focus my testing on Rocky/RHEL 8, 9, 10 then move this to master but feel free to report in any other new issues specific problems if you have them.