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fewbytes-mcollective cookbook

Installs mcollective from omnibus package.
Coming with basic plugins preconfigured:

  • service
  • ping
  • file
  • completion
  • facts
  • filemgr

*For now supports only RabbitMQ

Requirements

Omnibus package - 'http://public.fewbytes.com.s3.amazonaws.com/mcollective/mcollective_2.3.3-0.ubuntu.12.04_amd64.deb'

Usage

For server installation:

include_recipe 'mcollective::rabbitmq'
include_recipe 'mcollective::server'

For client installation:

include_recipe 'mcollective::client'

Plugin installation

Plugin installation is supported using the mcollective_plugin definition:

mcollective_plugin "sysctl-data" do
    source "https://github.com/puppetlabs/mcollective-sysctl-data.git"
    provider :git
end

Supported params:

  • provider - :git, :ark or :s3
  • source - URL of source repository or tarball
  • revision - git branch or revision
  • checksum - file checksum of ark/s3 tarballs/zipballs
  • strip_leading_dir - whether to strip the leader directory when extracting the archive. defaults to true
  • aws_access_key_id - for the S3 provider
  • aws_secret_access_key - for the S3 provider
  • bucket - for the S3 provider

Some plugins may need an extra gem; When using mcollective-omnibus you can install the gem using the mcollective_omnibus_gem definition e.g.:

mcollective_omnibus_gem "sys-proctable"

Attributes

atributes/{server.rb, client.rb}

Those files contains ruby hash that converted by the libraries/config_renderer.rb to mcollective configuration files. This is giving us the ability to refer to all the configuration parameters as

Recipes

  • mcollective::rabbitmq
  • mcollective::server
  • mcollective::client
  • mcollective::plugins - install a few common plugins

Author

Author:: Alex SHD (alex@fewbytes.com) Author:: Avishai Ish-Shalom (avishai@fewbytes.com)

TODO:

  • remove duplicates from attributes server/client files
  • key generator
  • RPM based distributions support
  • ability to install via chef_gem

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