chef-client-runit
This cookbook handles setting up chef-client to run as a service supervised by runit.
Motivation
I wanted something more simple for my purposes of running chef-client as a service than the excellent chef-client cookbook. I don't need the various extra features of that cookbook, I just need to get chef-client under runit.
It is not in scope to:
- Configure chef client
/etc/chef/client.rb - Perform log rotation (runit does that automatically)
- Support cron
- Support every platform
- Support every use case
Reasonable effort was made to ensure flexibility for the startup options.
Requirements
This cookbook requires Chef 12 or later.
Platforms
- Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04
- Fedora 21
- CentOS 6.6, 7.0
It should just work on any platform that the runit cookbook supports.
Cookbooks
- runit
Attributes
This cookbook uses the chef_client attribute namespace so that existing attributes can be reused without fuss.
| Attribute | Description | Type | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| interval | Interval for when the chef-client process should wake up, passed to -i. |
String | 1800 |
| splay | Random number of seconds to add to the interval, passed to -s. |
String | 300 |
| locale | Optionally set the locale. | String | nil |
| daemon_options | Array of command-line options to pass to chef-client. |
Array | [] |
Usage
Put recipe[chef-client-runit] on your node's role or run list.
License and Author
- Author: Joshua Timberman opensource@housepub.org
- Copyright (c) 2015, Joshua Timberman
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.