network Cookbook

Configures network.

Requirements

Cookbooks

The following cookbook is a direct dependency because it's used for common "default" functionality.

simple_iptables (for network::firewall)

Platforms

The following platforms are supported and tested under Test Kitchen:

CentosOS 5.10, 6.5

Other RHEL family distributions are assumed to work. See TESTING for information about running tests in Opscode's Test Kitchen.

Attributes

Refer to attributes/default.rb for default values.

node['network']['hosts']['127.0.0.1'] - hostnames for 127.0.0.1
node['network']['hosts'][node['ipaddress']] - hostnames for external IP address
node['network']['firewall'] - array of ports to open in the firewall

Recipes

This cookbook provides one main recipe for configuring the network.

default.rb - Use this recipe to configure the network.

common

This recipe provides the network service which can be restarted from the other recipes.

default

This recipe includes network::hosts and network::network.

dns_tools

This recipe installs the appropriate package containing dns utilities.

firewall

This recipe configures the iptables firewall.

hosts

This recipe installs the /etc/hosts configuration file.

network

This recipe installs the /etc/sysconfig/network configuration file.

Usage

On client nodes, use the default recipe:

{ "run_list": ["recipe[network]"] }

The following are the key items achieved by this cookbook:

installs /etc/hosts configuration file
installs /etc/sysconfig/network configuration file

License & Authors

Author:: Doc Walker (doc.walker@jameshardie.com)

Copyright 2013-2014, James Hardie Building Products, 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.

jhx/cookbook-network