chef_stack

Chef stack is a library cookbook that provides custom resources to build and manage your Chef infrastructure.

An accompanying project, Chef-Services exists as an example implementation of Chef Stack.

Custom Resources

Below are the custom resources provided by this cookbook.

General Properties

These properties exist for all resources

Name	Type	Default Value	Description
name	String	N/A	A name for the resource
channel	Symbol	stable	The channel from our package repository to install. Most of the time you want stable.
version	[String, Symbol]	latest	The version of Automate you want to install
config	String	N/A	The configuration that will be written to the appropriate configuration file for the product.
accept_license	[TrueClass, FalseClass]	false	Do you accept Chef's license agreements.
platform	String	Auto-detected	Use only if you need to over-ride the default platform.
platform_version	String	Auto-detected	Use only if you need to over-ride the default platform.

chef_automate

Installs Chef Automate.

Properties

Name	Type	Default Value	Description
enterprise	[String, Array]	chef	The Enterprise to create in Automate
license	String	N/A	Your license file
chef_user	String	workflow	The user you will connect to the Chef server as
chef_user_pem	String	N/A	The private key of the above Chef user
validation_pem	String	N/A	The validator key of the Chef org we're connecting to
builder_pem	String	N/A	The private key of the build nodes

chef_backend

Properties

Name	Type	Default Value	Description
bootstrap_node	String	N/A	The node we'll bootstrap secrets with.
publish_address	String	node['ipaddress']	The address you want Chef-Backend to listen on.
chef_backend_secrets	String	nil	A location where your secrets are

chef_org

Properties

Name	Type	Default Value	Description
org	String	N/A	The short name of the org.
org_full_name	String	node['ipaddress']	The full name of the org you want to create.
admins	Array	N/A	An array of admins for the org.
users	Array	[]	An array of users for the org.
remove_users	Array	[]	An array of users to remove from the org.
key_path	String	N/A	Where to store the validator key that is created with the org.

chef_user

Name	Type	Default Value	Description
username	String	N/A	The username of the user.
first_name	String	N/A	The first name of the user.
last_name	Array	N/A	The last name of the user.
email	Array	[]	N/A
password	Array	[]	The users password.
key_path	String	N/A	Where to store the users private key that is created with the user.
serveradmin	[TrueClass, FalseClass]	F	Is the user a serveradmin?

chef_client

Name	Type	Default Value	Description
node_name	String	true	The name of the node.
version	[String, Symbol]	latest	The version of chef-client to install.
chefdk	[TrueClass, FalseClass]	false	Do you want to install chefdk?
chef_server_url	[String, Symbol]	local	What is hte Chef server URL to connect to.
ssl_verify	[TrueClass, FalseClass]	true	Validate ssl certificates?
log_location	String	'STDOUT'	Where to log.
log_level	Symbol	auto	Log level.
config	String		Any configuration for client.rb.
run_list	Array		The clients runlist.
environment	String		Which Chef Environment the client belongs to.
validation_pem	String		The validation pem to validate with.
validation_client_name	String		The validation client name.
tags	[String, Array]	''	Any tags for the node.
interval	Integer	1800	The interval to run chef-client on.
splay	Integer	1800	The randomization to add to the interval.
data_collector_token	String	'93a49a4f2482c64126f7b6015e6b0f30284287ee4054ff8807fb63d9cbd1c506'	The data collector token to talk to Visibility.
data_collector_url	String		The Visibility URL to send data.

chef_file

Name	Type	Default Value	Description
filename	String		The name of the resource.
source	String		The source of the file.
user	String	default 'root'	The owner of the file.
group	String	default 'root'	The group owner of the file.
mode	String	default '0600'	The mode for the file.

chef_server

Name	Type	Default Value	Description
addons	Hash		A set of addons to install with the Chef Server.
data_collector_token	String	default '93a49a4f2482c64126f7b6015e6b0f30284287ee4054ff8807fb63d9cbd1c506'	The data collector token to authenticate with Chef Visiblity.
data_collector_url	String		The URL to connect to Visibility.

chef_supermarket

Name	Type	Default Value	Description
chef_server_url	String	Chef::Config['chef_server_url']	The Chef server's URL.
chef_oauth2_app_id	String		The oauth2 app id from the Chef server.
chef_oauth2_secret	String		The oauth2 secret from the Chef server.
chef_oauth2_verify_ssl	[TrueClass, FalseClass]	true	Whether to validate SSL certificates.

workflow_builder

Name	Type	Default Value	Description
pj_version	[String, Symbol]	:latest	The version of Push-Jobs to install.
chef_user	String	'workflow'	The Chef user to authenticate with the Chef Server.
chef_user_pem	String		The private key of the Chef user to authenticate with the Chef Server.
builder_pem	String		The builder users private key to communicate with Chef Automate.
chef_fqdn	String	URI.parse(Chef::Config['chef_server_url']).host	The FQDN of the Chef server.
automate_fqdn	String
supermarket_fqdn	String		The FQDN of the Supermarket server.
job_dispatch_version	String	'v2'	Which job dispatch version to use. V1 is push-jobs, V2 is SSH runners.
automate_user	String	'admin'	What is the Automate user we're connecting to Automate as.
automate_password	String		The password for the user above.
automate_enterprise	String	'chef'	The Enterprise to connect to.
chef_config_path	String	'/etc/chef/client.rb'	The config path for chef-client.