Merge pull request #75 from LaneCommunityCollege/optional_user

For  #36 - Add support for creating optional elasticsearch user and group

tasks/elasticsearch-optional-user.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+---
+#Add the elasticsearch user before installing from packages.
+- name: Ensure optional elasticsearch group is created with the correct id.
+  group:
+    state: present
+    name: "{{ es_group }}"
+    system: yes
+    gid: "{{ es_group_id }}"
+
+- name: Ensure optional elasticsearch user is created with the correct id.
+  user:
+    state: present
+    name: "{{ es_user }}"
+    comment: elasticsearch system user
+    system: yes
+    createhome: no
+    uid: "{{ es_user_id }}"
+    group: "{{ es_group }}"

tasks/elasticsearch.yml

@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@
 
 - debug: msg="Node configuration {{ es_config }} "
 
+- name: Include optional user and group creation. 
+  when: (es_user_id is defined) and (es_group_id is defined)
+  include: elasticsearch-optional-user.yml
+
 #- name: Include specific Elasticsearch
 #  include: "elasticsearch-{{ansible_os_family}}.yml"