A Cron job that will check and report node staleness. Only supports slack as the messaging service
As it stands right now, chef-bot should be run in a cron job on a machine with Ruby installed.
You should clone this repo to a place of your choosing.
git clone https://github.com/evertrue/chef-bot
Then add this to your crontab using crontab -e or adding a crontab to /etc/cron.d/ (slightly different format)
Example cron configuration
*/5 * * * * CHEF_SERVER_ENDPOINT="https://api.opscode.com/organizations/<your org>" CHEF_BOT_SLACK_HOOK="<Your Slack Hook>" KNIFE_NODE_NAME="username" KNIFE_CLIENT_KEY="/path/to/you.pem" CHEF_BOT_STALE_TIME=3600 CHEF_BOT_CHANNEL="#ops" /home/<username>/chef-bot/chef-bot.rb
Let's break this down
CHEF_SERVER_ENDPOINT Is the api endpoint to the chef server. Find this in your knife.rb
CHEF_BOT_SLACK_HOOK Is the Web Hook URL that you create with slack
KNIFE_NODE_NAME Find this in your knife.rb
KNIFE_CLIENT_KEY Find this in your knife.rb
CHEF_BOT_CHANNEL The slack channel to post to. Example: "#ops"
CHEF_BOT_STALE_TIME Seconds since the last check in until a node is considered stale. Default is 1 hour
The last part is the location of the chef-bot.rb script