common_linux cookbook
A cookbook whicb provides basic low level configuration for Linux systems, for instance configuring hostnames, ntp, syslog and chef-client. For those most part, functionality will be added here by including third party cookbooks.
Requirements
This cookbook requires Chef 12.7.0 or later.
Platform
Ubuntu
Included cookbooks
- chef-client
- apt
- ubuntu
- build-essentials
- ntp
- ulimit
- sysctl
- rsyslog_ng
Attributes
common.repositories
Hash of repositories used to create apt_repository resources. This could always be extended to support yum_repository resources at a alter time as well.
common.packages | common.gems | common.chef_gems
Hashes enabling you to define package, gem and chef_gem packages that should be installed during the chef run.
common.iptables
Hashes enabling you to define iptables lwrp definitions.
LWRP
hostname
Simple resource designed to set the hostname on Ubuntu machines.
timezone
Simple resource designed to set the timezone on Ubuntu machines.