Description

Manages changing settings for udev configuration. Currently only only supports configuring network device ordering at boot. This may be managed via attributes on a role or with a udev data bag.

Recipes

net

Populates the /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules with the ['udev']['net'] hash, with keys of ethernet devices (ie. 'eth0') and values of mac addresses. It attempts to read a udev data bag if it exists.

udev Role

You may set attributes for udev configuration via a role or with a udev data bag. Here is an example role:

name "udev"
description "Configure udev"
run_list(
  "recipe[udev]"
  )
default_attributes(
  "udev" => {
    "net" => {
      "eth0" => "00:0c:29:49:84:33",
      "eth1" => "00:0c:29:49:84:29"
    }
  })

udev Data Bag

In order to manage the udev configuration of machines registering themselves with their Chef Server or Opscode Hosted Chef, we may use a udev data bag.

% knife data bag create udev
% knife data bag from file udev crushinator.json

Here is an example of the crushinator.json, the id is the node.hostname.

{
    "id": "crushinator,
    "net": {
        "eth0": "00:0c:29:49:84:33",
        "eth1": "00:0c:29:49:84:29"
    }
}

name "udev"
description "Configure udev"
run_list(
  "recipe[udev::databag]"
  )

Usage

Using either a Role or a udev data bag, set the ['udev']['net'] hash with the eth devices in the order desired with their mac addresses. Upon reboot, the ordering will take effect. Works well with the pxe_dust cookbook to set the order while provisioning the operating system.

License and Author

Author:: Matt Ray (matt@opscode.com)

Copyright 2012 Opscode, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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