Linux Cookbook

Description

The linux cookbook contains features to support the installation and management of linux virtual machines.

Operating System Versions Supported

• Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.x
• Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.x

Use Cases

• Inject host entries into the linux hostfile, based on the nodes deployed.
• Add customer redhat repositories into a deployed image.
• Enable additonal redhat repositories on Amazon AMI's to allow successful deployment of Automation Conent

Platform Pre-Requisites

• None

Software Repository

• None

Customer Repository Example (role contents)

The following is a sample for adding a cusomter repository.

"linux": {
  "configure":{
    "yum_repositories": "true"
  },
  "yum_repositories": {
    "repo01": { "description": "Repository Description",
                  "repositoryid": "Name of the Repository",
                  "baseurl": "http://x.x.x.x./redhat/6/",
                  "enabled": true,
                  "gpgkey": "",
                  "gpgcheck": true,
                  "sslverify": true,
                  "sslcacert": ""
                }
  }
}

Requirements

Platform:

• Redhat

Cookbooks:

• ibm_cloud_utils

Attributes

Attribute	Description	Default
node['linux']['filesystems']['filesystem($INDEX)']['device']	Device to mount to, leave blank if unknown, the system will search for it.	/dev/xvdc
node['linux']['filesystems']['filesystem($INDEX)']['force']	Force the mount true or false	true
node['linux']['filesystems']['filesystem($INDEX)']['fstype']	File System Type	ext4
node['linux']['filesystems']['filesystem($INDEX)']['group']	Group owner of the mount point	default
node['linux']['filesystems']['filesystem($INDEX)']['label']	Label of the file system	filesystem1
node['linux']['filesystems']['filesystem($INDEX)']['mountpoint']	Directory to mount to, directory will be created	/var/filesystem1
node['linux']['filesystems']['filesystem($INDEX)']['options']	Advanced options for mounting the disk	defaults
node['linux']['filesystems']['filesystem($INDEX)']['perms']	Permissions for the mount point.	default
node['linux']['filesystems']['filesystem($INDEX)']['size']	Size in GB of the disk	true
node['linux']['filesystems']['filesystem($INDEX)']['user']	Owner of the mount point.	default
node['linux']['physicalvolumes']['physicalvolume($INDEX)']['device']	Name of the physical device, eg, /dev/xdba. Leave assign a free device based on size
node['linux']['physicalvolumes']['physicalvolume($INDEX)']['logicalvolumes']['logicalvolume($INDEX)']['filesystem']	The stsandard filesystem type.	ext4
node['linux']['physicalvolumes']['physicalvolume($INDEX)']['logicalvolumes']['logicalvolume($INDEX)']['lv_name']	Name of the logical volume.	lv_name
node['linux']['physicalvolumes']['physicalvolume($INDEX)']['logicalvolumes']['logicalvolume($INDEX)']['lv_size']	Size of the filesystem, use standard lvm file size format	10g
node['linux']['physicalvolumes']['physicalvolume($INDEX)']['logicalvolumes']['logicalvolume($INDEX)']['mountpoint']	Mount Point of the file system attached to the Logical Volume	/var/filesystem1
node['linux']['physicalvolumes']['physicalvolume($INDEX)']['logicalvolumes']['logicalvolume($INDEX)']['options']	Name of the logical volume.	rw
node['linux']['physicalvolumes']['physicalvolume($INDEX)']['size']	Size if GB of the device.	10
node['linux']['physicalvolumes']['physicalvolume($INDEX)']['vg_name']	Name of the Volume Group to be assigned to the Physical Volume.	vgname
node['linux']['yum_repositories']['repo01']['baseurl']	URL For accessing YUM Repository	https://xx
node['linux']['yum_repositories']['repo01']['description']	Description of the YUM respository	Yum Repository 1
node['linux']['yum_repositories']['repo01']['enabled']	Enable True/False Flag	true
node['linux']['yum_repositories']['repo01']['gpgcheck']	GPGCheck True/False Flag	true
node['linux']['yum_repositories']['repo01']['gpgkey']	Location of GPG Key
node['linux']['yum_repositories']['repo01']['repositoryid']	Repository ID Name	CAM Repository
node['linux']['yum_repositories']['repo01']['sslcacert']	Location of sslcacert
node['linux']['yum_repositories']['repo01']['sslverify']	sslverify True/False Flag	true

Recipes

linux::cleanup.rb

Left Empty on purpose, not used in cookbook.

linux::create_fs.rb

Create 1..n disks and mount based on the ibm_cloud_fs resource

linux::create_lvm.rb

Create a series of physical volumes, volume groups and logical volumes

linux::default.rb

Executes the linux-utils role.

linux::gather_evidence.rb

Left Empty on purpose, not used in cookbook.

linux::install.rb

Left Empty on purpose, not used in cookbook.

linux::prereq.rb

Install prequisite packages on Linux distro

linux::test_kitchen_fix.rb

Install net-tools for inspec testing of port numbers.

linux::yumrepo.rb

Create xxx.repo files on a redhat server

License and Author

Author:: IBM Corp (<>)

Copyright:: 2018, IBM Corp

License:: Copyright IBM Corp. 2012, 2018