alloy(role): add documentation

- add README
- add argument_specs
- removed tags

roles/alloy/README.md

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+# `Grafana Alloy` role
+
+Installs and configures [Grafana Alloy](https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/) on Debian-based systems.
+Optionally deploys a [Blackbox exporter](https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter) config and a [UniFi Poller](https://unpoller.com/).
+
+## Supported Distributions
+
+Should work on Debian-based distributions.
+
+## Required Arguments
+
+- `alloy_config_default`: The default Alloy configuration. Recomanded for configuration that hosts of a groupe share.
+
+## Optional Arguments
+
+- `alloy_config_additional`: Additional Alloy configuration appended to the default config. Recomanded for per host configuration
+- `alloy_cap_net_bind_service`: Grant Alloy the `CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE` capability, allowing it to bind to privileged ports (<1024).
+
+### Blackbox Exporter 
+- `alloy_blackbox_exporter_config_default`: Default blackbox exporter configuration.
+- `alloy_blackbox_exporter_config_additional`: Additional blackbox exporter configuration appended to the default blackbox exporter config.
+
+### UniFi Poller
+
+- `alloy_unpoller_enabled`: Enable the UniFi Poller container to scrape UniFi metrics.
+- `alloy_unpoller_unifi_user`: Username for the UniFi controller used by unpoller, defaults to `unpoller`.
+- `alloy_unpoller_unifi_password`: Password for the UniFi controller. Required when `alloy_unpoller_enabled` is `true`.
+- `alloy_unpoller_unifi_url`: URL of the UniFi controller. Required when `alloy_unpoller_enabled` is `true`.

roles/alloy/defaults/main.yaml

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 ---
 alloy_cap_net_bind_service: false
-alloy_do_we_have_v6: "{{ (ansible_facts['all_ipv6_addresses'] | select('match', '^[23]') | list | length > 0) | ternary('true', 'false') }}"
 
 alloy_config_default: |
   prometheus.remote_write "default" {

roles/alloy/meta/argument_specs.yaml

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+argument_specs:
+  main:
+    options:
+      alloy_config_default:
+        type: str
+        required: true
+      alloy_config_additional:
+        type: str
+        required: false
+      alloy_blackbox_exporter_config_default:
+        type: str
+        required: false
+      alloy_blackbox_exporter_config_additional:
+        type: str
+        required: false
+      alloy_cap_net_bind_service:
+        type: bool
+        required: false
+        default: false
+      alloy_unpoller_enabled:
+        type: bool
+        required: false
+        default: false
+      alloy_unpoller_unifi_user:
+        type: str
+        required: false
+        default: unpoller
+      alloy_unpoller_unifi_password:
+        type: str
+        required: false
+      alloy_unpoller_unifi_url:
+        type: str
+        required: false

roles/alloy/tasks/blackbox-exporter.yaml

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 ---
 - name: Render blackbox exporter config
-  tags: [ blackbox-exporter, alloy ]
   become: true
   ansible.builtin.template:
     src: config.blackbox-exporter.j2

roles/alloy/tasks/install.yaml

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     name: grafana
     types: deb
     uris: https://apt.grafana.com
-    suites: stable
+    suites: "{{ ansible_facts['distribution_release'] }}"
     components:
       - main
     signed_by: https://apt.grafana.com/gpg.key

roles/alloy/tasks/main.yaml

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 - name: Deploy Grafana Alloy with config
   tags: [ alloy ]
   block:
-    - name: Install Alloy on Debian
+    - name: Install Alloy
-      when: ansible_facts['distribution'] == "Debian"
+      ansible.builtin.include_tasks: install.yaml
-      ansible.builtin.include_tasks: install_debian.yml
 
     - name: Create systemd override for alloy
       become: true

roles/alloy/tasks/unpoller.yaml

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 ---
 - name: Install and Setup unpoller
-  tags: [ unpoller, alloy, podman, container ]
   block:
     - name: Install Podman
       become: true

roles/alloy/vars/main.yaml

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 ---
 alloy_enable_blackbox_exporter: "{{ 'prometheus.exporter.blackbox' in (alloy_config_default + alloy_config_additional) }}"
+alloy_do_we_have_v6: "{{ (ansible_facts['all_ipv6_addresses'] | select('match', '^[23]') | list | length > 0) | ternary('true', 'false') }}"