system Cookbook

This cookbook is designed to provide a set of recipes to manage core system properties.

Requirements

Chef >= 10
Ruby 1.9

Platforms Supported

Debian, Ubuntu
CentOS, RHEL, Fedora
Arch Linux

Cookbooks

apt
cron
hostsfile

Attributes

See attributes/default.rb for default values.

node['system']['timezone'] - the system timezone to set, default UTC
node['system']['short_hostname'] - the short hostname to set on the node, default is node['hostname']
node['system']['domain_name'] - the domain name to set on the node, default localdomain
node['system']['static_hosts'] - an array of static hostnames to add to /etc/hosts
node['system']['upgrade_packages'] - whether to upgrade the system's packages, default true
node['system']['packages']['install'] - an array of packages to install
node['system']['packages']['install_compile_time'] - an array of packages to install in Chef's compilation phase

The following attributes should never need to be user set:

node['system']['cron_service_name']

Usage

###Recipes

default
hostname
install_packages
reboot
timezone
update_package_list
upgrade_packages

See metadata.rb for more information.

License and Authors

Author: Chris Fordham (chris@fordham-nagy.id.au)

Copyright 2011-2014, Chris Fordham

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

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