chef-beaver Cookbook

python daemon that munches on logs and sends their contents to logstash

Requirements

packages

• python
• virtualenv
• git

cookbooks

• python
• runit
• build-essential
• git

Resources and Providers

This cookbook provides two resources and corresponding providers.

install.rb

Actions:

• install - installs beaver
• uninstall - uninstalls beaver

configure.rb

Actions:

• create - creates a beaver process
• destroy - stops the beaver process

Attributes

chef-beaver::install

Key	Type	Description	Default
install_uri	String	If installing via the git protocol the fully qualified uri to resolve the package for beaver	git+git://github.com/josegonzalez/beaver.git#egg=beaver
install_version	String	If installing via PyPi package name and version to install	beaver==28
beaver_root	String	Directory that we create a virtualenv instance in to install beaver in to	/opt/beaver

chef-beaver::configure

Key	Type	Description	Default
redis_url	String	Fully qualified uri of the redis server configured for logstash e.g. redis://172.29.11.1:6379/0	String.new

Usage

chef-beaver::example

Provides an example of how to use this with a redis server to send your messages to

Just include chef-beaver in your node's run_list:

{
  "name":"my_node",
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[chef-beaver::example]"
  ]
}

Contributing

1. Fork the repository on Github
2. Create a named feature branch (like add_component_x)
3. Write you change
4. Write tests for your change (if applicable)
5. Run the tests, ensuring they all pass
6. Submit a Pull Request using Github

License and Authors

Authors: Scott M. Likens scott@spam.likens.us

Copyright 2013, Scott M. Likens

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
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