Jaeger v2 With Badger On Loopback, A Span Written And Read Back
Jaeger v2, the tracing backend built on the OpenTelemetry Collector, from the upstream release (sha256-verified against the right checksum file) as a hardened system service on loopback with badger storage and the query API on loopback. The live test pushes a span over OTLP and reads the trace back by id with its name and service. Original role, live-tested on Rocky Linux 10.
Verification
Live-testedReally deployed to a container sandbox, proven idempotent (a second run changes nothing), verified against the role’s assertions, then torn down.
Conformance
- Static validation (yamllint · ansible-lint)
Provenance
- SHA-256 checksum
- Signature (pending)
Functional
- Live-tested - applied, verified, destroyed
Last verified 2026-09-20 · podman 4.9.3 · ansible 2.21.4 · how we verify
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Documentation
jaeger
Jaeger v2, the tracing backend built on the OpenTelemetry Collector, from the upstream release (sha256-verified), as a hardened system service on loopback with badger storage under its data directory and the query API and UI on loopback for a proxy that authenticates. Original role for EL 10, live-tested with podman on Rocky Linux 10.
No package, so the checksum is the whole story. EL 10 carries no
jaeger; Jaeger ships a release with a checksum file beside it. The
role downloads both and has Ansible's get_url refuse the asset unless its
SHA-256 is the one in the vendor's file, then installs the binaries as
root's in /usr/local/bin, pinned by jaeger_version.
A service account, a hardened unit, a loopback listener. jaeger
is a system user with no shell that owns the data directory and nothing
else; the unit runs with NoNewPrivileges, PrivateTmp, ProtectHome and
ProtectSystem=strict. The listener is 127.0.0.1:4318 by default,
for a proxy that authenticates or a client on the same host; the live test
reads the listening sockets and expects loopback only.
The right checksum file. The release publishes two: the per-platform
.sha256sum.txt lists the files INSIDE the tarball, the top-level
jaeger-<version>.sha256sum.txt lists the tarballs; the role checks the
download against the latter, whose names carry a leading * that
Ansible's get_url matches. jaeger validate checks the configuration
before it lands.
Proven by a span. The live test pushes one span over OTLP/HTTP and
reads the trace back by id from the query API with its operation name
and service; that is the receiver, the storage exporter, badger and the
query extension all at work. Badger keeps spans for jaeger_span_ttl
(a week) in two directories under the data directory. This catalogue's
tempo and otel-collector roles listen on the same OTLP ports; one
host runs one of them on 4317/4318.
License
Commercial - IaC Bazaar EULA. (c) IaC Bazaar.
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