DESCRIPTION

Chef's Cookbook to change an ip address on a node server and set it to static based on attributes defined in a JSON file. This has been tested and verified working on Ubuntu 12.04. All the recipe does is set a static ip by overwriting the /etc/network/interfaces file in Ubuntu.

Direct Link to the project on Github:

http://github.com/harryyeh/chef-ipaddress

REQUIREMENTS

Platform:

The cookbook aims to be platform independant, but is tested on Ubuntu 12.04.

USAGE:

Add your cookbook to the chef server. Make sure you have the following data bag setup.

knife cookbook upload chef-ipaddress

You will need a databag in chef named "servers" the following is a sample data bag

{
    "id": "server1",
    "interfaces": {
        "eth0": {
                "address": "192.168.1.2",
                "netmask": "255.255.255.0",
                "gateway": "192.168.1.1",
                "dns-nameservers": "192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2",
                "dns-search": "test-domain.com"
            
        },
				"eth1": {
                "address": "192.168.2.2",
                "netmask": "255.255.255.0"
				}
    }
}

Assume you have a file called server1.json use the knife command to add this databag to chef before you add this to the run list. The json file name must match the name of the nodename in chef or this will not work. Or you have to set the attribute set_hostname below when you add it to the run list.

knife data bag from file servers server1.json

Notes

Right now if you put this in your run-list and execute chef-client on the node you want this to happen on, you will have to reboot the server manually for the changes to occur. I've commented out Line #23 in default.rb. If you uncomment this it will automatically restart the network connection when you run it.

ATTRIBUTES

set_hostname - this parameter only needs to be set if you are doing a bootstrap

LICENSE

chef-ipaddress - Changing the ip address on a linux system using chef.

Author:	Harry Yeh (devops@cometcomputing.com)
Copyright:	Copyright (c) 2008-2012 Comet Computing.
License:	Apache License, Version 2.0

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.