PMM-12529 provide a playbook to install pmm-client

build/ansible/pmm2/post-build-actions.yml

@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@
         - ansible_distribution == 'OracleLinux' or ansible_distribution == 'AlmaLinux'
         - ansible_distribution_major_version == '9'
 
+    # TODO: move to a version-less directory, e.g. /usr/local/percona/pmm
     - name: pmm-agent                  | Setup pmm-agent
       command: >
         pmm-agent setup

build/ansible/roles/pmm2-images/tasks/main.yml

@@ -166,12 +166,9 @@
 - name: PMM                        | Enable repo for pmm2-client
   command: percona-release enable {{ pmm_client_repos }}
 
-- name: Install RPMs               | Install pmm2-client rpm
-  yum:
-    name:
-      - pmm2-client
-    state: installed
-    enablerepo: "{{ pmm_client_repo_name }}"
+- name: Install pmm-client
+  include_role:
+    name: pmm-client
 
 - name: Disable pmm-agent service | Disable pmm-agent
   when: ansible_virtualization_type != "docker"

update/ansible/playbook/tasks/files/pmm.ini

@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ redirect_stderr = true
 [program:pmm-agent]
 priority = 15
 command = /usr/sbin/pmm-agent --config-file=/usr/local/percona/pmm2/config/pmm-agent.yaml
+user = pmm
 autorestart = true
 autostart = true
 startretries = 1000

update/ansible/playbook/tasks/roles/pmm-client/tasks/main.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+---
+# This role installs pmm-client.
+- name: Get the image version
+  slurp:
+    src: /usr/share/percona-dashboards/VERSION
+  register: image_version_file
+
+- name: Set the PMM image version
+  set_fact:
+    pmm_image_version: "{{ image_version_file['content'] | b64decode | trim }}"
+
+- name: Download and unpack the tarball
+  unarchive:
+    src: "https://www.percona.com/downloads/pmm2/{{ pmm_image_version }}/binary/tarball/pmm2-client-{{ pmm_image_version }}.tar.gz"
+    dest: /tmp/pmm-client/
+    copy: no
+    remote_src: true
+
+- name: Create a directory for pmm-client
+  file: 
+    path: /usr/local/percona/pmm2
+    state: directory 
+    owner: pmm 
+    group: pmm 
+    mode: 0755
+
+- name: Install the client
+  command: env PMM_USER=pmm PMM_GROUP=pmm /tmp/pmm-client/install_tarball
+
+- name: Remove the tarball
+  file:
+    path: /tmp/pmm-client
+    state: absent

update/ansible/playbook/tasks/update.yml

@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
       - percona-alertmanager
       - pmm-managed
       - pmm-update
-      - pmm2-client
       - pmm-dump
       - vmproxy
       - grafana-db-migrator