whitelist-node-attrs Cookbook

This cookbook provides a library that allows you to set a whitelist of node attributes that should be saved on the server. All of the attributes are still available throughout the chef run, but only those specifically listed will be saved to the server.

DEPRECATION

This functionality now exists in Chef core therefore this cookbook is no longer necessary. Whitelist attributes are supported in modern versions of Chef and are the recommended practice for managing node attributes.

Requirements

Chef 0.9.0+

Requires chef-client and a Chef Server - this cookbook doesn't make sense, nor work, with chef-solo.

Works on any platform.

Attributes

node[:whitelist] provides a map of node attributes to store. The defaults are provided by this cookbook, and the map is:

node.default[:whitelist] = {
  "domain" => true,
  "fqdn" => true,
  "hostname" => true,
  "ipaddress" => true,
  "macaddress" => true,
  "platform" => true,
  "platform_version" => true,
  "kernel" => {
    "machine" => true,
    "name" => true,
    "os" => true,
    "release" => true,
    "version" => true
  }
}

This cookbook honors the fact that attributes are set at different precedence levels.

Usage

Upload the cookbook, and make sure that it is included as a dependency in another cookbooks metadata, or that the recipe (which does nothing) is included in the role.

Whenever node.save is called, such as at the end of the run, the whitelist will be applied.

License and Author

Author:: Adam Jacob ([email protected])

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.

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