idealista.goreplay_role

GoReplay Ansible role

This ansible role installs and configure GoReplay. Supports debian stretch and buster.

Getting Started
- Prerequisities
- Installing
Usage
Testing
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Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the role for your ansible playbook. Once launched, it will install the GoReplay utility as a service in your Debian system.

Prerequisities

Ansible 5.2.X version installed. Inventory destination should be a Debian environment.

For testing purposes, Molecule with Vagrant as driver (with landrush plugin) and VirtualBox as provider.

Installing

Create or add to your roles dependency file (e.g requirements.yml):

- src: idealista.goreplay_role
  version: 2.0.0
  name: goreplay

Install the role with ansible-galaxy command:

ansible-galaxy install -p roles -r requirements.yml -f

Usage

To enable GoReplay and replicate traffic on another host override the following variables

goreplay_input: '"--input-raw :80"'
goreplay_output: '"--output-http http://test01:80"'

To save it to a file

goreplay_input: '"--input-raw :80"'
goreplay_output: "--output-file={{ goreplay_output_dir }}/requests.gor"

!Stop GoReplay to retrieve the file, otherwise you could lost last requests https://github.com/buger/gor/wiki/Saving-and-Replaying-from-file#buffered-file-output

goreplay_service_state: stopped

Or stop the service manually

ssh user@host
sudo service goreplay stop

Or start the service with a low flush interval

goreplay_input: '"--input-raw :80"'
goreplay_output: "--output-file={{ goreplay_output_dir }}/requests.gor"
goreplay_options:
  - output-file-flush-interval 0m1s