il-base cookbook

IL-Base is a application cookbook around base cookbooks and recipes we want to include in our environments.

Some are default as we need them to be on our nodes, some are attribute driven so we can specify if we want to include them.

Supported Platforms

• Ubuntu

Attributes

default.rb

Inlcude the apt cookbook

default['base']['include']['apt'] = true

Include the chef_client cookbook

default['base']['include']['chef-client'] = false

Include a simple report handler which outputs updated resources to stdout

default['base']['include']['simple_report_handler'] = true

Include the hipchat handler

default['base']['include']['hipchat_handler'] = false

Include the slack handler

default['base']['include']['slack_handler'] = false

Include chef-sugar

default['base']['include']['chef-sugar'] = true

Include the ntp cookbook

default['base']['include']['ntp'] = true

Include motd

default['base']['include']['motd'] = true
default['base']['motd']['operation_tools'] = true

Include some operations tools

default['base']['include']['operation_tools'] = true
default['base']['operation-tools'] = %w( htop iotop apachetop atop nmon dstat iftop nload )

Include build_essential cookbook

default['base']['include']['build_essential'] = false

Usage

il-base::default

Include il-base in your node's run_list:

{
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[il-base::default]"
  ]
}

Contributing

1. Fork the repository on Github
2. Create a named feature branch (i.e. add-new-recipe)
3. Write you change
4. Write tests for your change (if applicable)
5. Run the tests, ensuring they all pass
6. Submit a Pull Request

License and Authors

Author:: Edmund Haselwanter (me@ehaselwanter.com)