rackops_rolebook Cookbook

This "rolebook" is a set of recipes that enable Rackspace to support DevOps Automation customers. Should a customer no longer want Rackspace support, we are able to remove this "rolebook" without impacting any other automation the customer may be using.

Requirements

• depends "apt"
• depends "user"
• depends "motd-tail"
• depends "sudo"
• depends "rackspace_iptables"
• depends "ohai"
• depends "platformstack"

Attributes

• default['rackops_rolebook']['editor']['default'] - sets the default editor for the entire machine via /etc/profile.d. Defaults to vim

Recipes

default.rb - This recipe includes all the recipes from the required core cookbooks. It will include chef-client recipes if we are not running in chef_solo mode. It adds the rack user to the sudo group and installs a bunch of handy applications. acl.rb - This recipe will the standard rackspace IPtables allows. motd.rb - This recipe sets the motd useful to Rackspace support. public_info.rb - This recipe sets a tag equal to the public IP detected on an external call. This will assist Rackspace support in finding the correct IP to connect to via SSH rack_user.rb - This recipe sets up the rack user, and pulls in the authorized_keys file with the public keys of various Rackspace support staff so that support can access the server for troubleshooting and remediation.

Usage

rackops_rolebook::default

e.g. Just include rackops_rolebook in your node's run_list:

{
  "name":"my_node",
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[rackops_rolebook]"
  ]
}

License and Authors

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License

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