sbates / dhcp-cookbook

dhcp cookbook for Chef

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Description

Configures a DHCP server. Includes LWRPs for managing hosts, groups and subnets.

If you need PXE-boot installations, you can use this cookbook with pxe_dust which will configure the tftp cookbook and prepare the bootable images.

Based off of work initially done by Dell, extended by Atalanta Systems and reworked by Opscode.

Requirements

Tested with Ubuntu 10.04 and Chef 0.10.

Limitations

Pools, failovers, classes and subclasses are not yet supported.

Recipes

default

Passes through to the server.

server

The node will install and configure the dhcp3-server application. Configuration is through the dhcp data bag.

Data Bag

dhcp

Configuration for this service is through the dhcp data bag so other cookbooks and recipes may have access to this information as necessary. The configuration of the dhcpd.conf can either be done through attributes or through the default item in the data bag (data bag takes prescedence).

% knife data bag create dhcp
% knife data bag from file dhcp examples/default.json

Resources/Providers

host

This LWRP

Actions

  • :add:
  • :remove:

Attribute Parameters

  • key:
  • url:

Example

# add
    
# remove

group

This LWRP

Actions

  • :add:
  • :remove:

Attribute Parameters

  • key:
  • url:

Example

# add
    
# remove

subnet

This LWRP

Actions

  • :add:
  • :remove:

Attribute Parameters

  • key:
  • url:

Example

# add
    
# remove

Usage

License and Author

Author:: Matt Ray (matt@opscode.com)

Copyright:: 2011 Atalanta Systems

Copyright:: 2011 Dell, Inc.

Copyright:: 2011 Opscode, Inc.

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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