JumpCloud Cookbook

This cookbook installs the JumpCloud agent and can employ the agent to:

• tag the system
• remove the system from JumpCloud when the system is shutdown

Also, a recipe to install a Nagios plugin to verify the system as been tagged is included.

Recipes

install_agent

Installs the agent as well as an init script to remove the system from JumpCloud upon shutdown and uninstall the agent.

install_dependencies

Installs dependencies required by JumpCloud.

nagios_plugin

Installs a Nagios plugin that can be used to not only verify the system has been assigned tags, but also that the system can connect to the JumpCloud service.

JumpCloud's /opt/js is restricted to root access only. If ['nagios_plugin']['run_as'] is set in the config data bag item, a sudoers.d file is installed to allow the specified user the ability to run the script.

tag_system

Tags the system with:

• the system's Chef environment IF it exists as a tag in JumpCloud
• the tags assigned to the system's role

Platform

Tested on Ubuntu 12.04 and Chef 11.4.0.

Setup

You need to setup a data bag named jumpcloud with a 'config' data bag item:

"id": "config",
"api": {
  "url": "https://console.jumpcloud.com/api"
},
"kickstart": {
  "url": "https://kickstart.jumpcloud.com/Kickstart"
}
"nagios_plugin": {
  // Only required if using the Nagios plugin
  "path": "/usr/local/bin",
  "run_as": "nagios"
},
"tag_system": {
  // Only required if using the tagging script
  "path": "/usr/local/bin"
}

and a 'x-connect-key' encrypted data bag item:

"id": "x-connect-key",
"key": "0123456789"

Replace the key with your x-connect-key which can be found in the JumpCloud console in any of the installation methods listed under Systems.

Usage

Add the recipes and set tags as attributes in a role:

name "sandbox"
description "Sandbox servers"

run_list(
  "recipe[jumpcloud::install_dependencies]",
  "recipe[jumpcloud::install_agent]",
  "recipe[jumpcloud::tag_system]",
  "recipe[jumpcloud::nagios_plugin]
)

default_attributes(
  "jumpcloud" => {
    "tags" => ["administrators","developers"]
  }
)

License and Author

Author: Clif Smith(clif@spanning.com)

Copyright 2014, Spanning Cloud Apps, 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

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.