Installs and configures ISC DHCP server in both DHCP and DHCPv6 mode.
- Supports setting up Master/Slave ISC DHCP failover (IPv4 only).
- Includes Support for DDNS
- Includes resources for managing:
- Package installation
- Service configuration and management
- Global configuration
- Hosts
- Groups
- Subnets
- Shared subnets
Version 7.0.0 constitutes a major change and rewrite, please see UPGRADING.md.
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- Debian / Ubuntu
- RHEL/CentOS and derivatives
- Fedora and derivatives
- Chef 15.3+
It is recommended to create a project or organization specific wrapper cookbook and add the desired custom resources to the run list of a node.
Example of a basic server listening on and issuing leases for the subnet 192.0.2.0/24.
dhcp_install 'isc-dhcp-server'
dhcp_service 'dhcpd' do
ip_version :ipv4
action [:create, :enable, :start]
end
dhcp_config '/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf' do
allow %w(booting bootp unknown-clients)
parameters(
'default-lease-time' => 7200,
'max-lease-time' => 86400,
'update-static-leases' => true,
'one-lease-per-client' => true,
'authoritative' => '',
'ping-check' => true
)
options(
'domain-name' => '"test.domain.local"',
'domain-name-servers' => '8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4'
)
action :create
end
dhcp_subnet '192.0.2.0' do
comment 'Basic Subnet Declaration'
subnet '192.0.2.0'
netmask '255.255.255.0'
options [
'routers 192.168.1.1',
]
pool(
'peer' => '192.168.0.2',
'range' => '192.168.1.100 192.168.1.200'
)
parameters(
'ddns-domainname' => '"test.domain"'
)
end- https://kb.isc.org/docs/isc-dhcp-44-manual-pages-dhcpdconf
- https://kb.isc.org/docs/isc-dhcp-44-manual-pages-dhcp-options
- https://kb.isc.org/docs/isc-dhcp-44-manual-pages-dhcp-eval
Please check for more varied working examples in the test cookbook.
- dhcp_class
- dhcp_config
- dhcp_group
- dhcp_host
- dhcp_package
- dhcp_service
- dhcp_shared_network
- dhcp_subnet
There are some known issues on Ubuntu when apparmor is running which may prevent the service from running properly. Please see the test cookbook for a possible work around that you can apply on your nodes.
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