Chef Cookbook System

Deprecated

The cookbook is now deprecated and will not receive any updates. The keyboard layout received its own cookbook and the others are just oneliners that can be replicated rather easily.

Requirements

Supported Platforms

• Debian Stretch

Chef

• Chef 13.0+

Cookbook Depdendencies

Usage

Add the cookbook to your Berksfile:

cookbook 'codenamephp_system'

Add the cookbook to your runlist, e.g. in a role:

{
  "name": "default",
  "chef_type": "role",
  "json_class": "Chef::Role",
  "run_list": [
	  "recipe[codenamephp_system]"
  ]
}

Attributes

Keyboard Layout

• default['codenamephp']['system']['keyboardLayout']['XKBMODEL']: The keyboard model, defaults to 'pc105'
• default['codenamephp']['system']['keyboardLayout']['XKBLAYOUT']: The keyboard layout(s)/language(s), can be a CSV list, defaults to 'de'
• default['codenamephp']['system']['keyboardLayout']['XKBVARIANT']: The keyboard variant, defaults to ''
• default['codenamephp']['system']['keyboardLayout']['XKBOPTIONS']: Additional xkboptions, defaults to ''
• default['codenamephp']['system']['keyboardLayout']['BACKSPACE']: How to find the backspace key, defaults to 'guess'

Locale

• default['codenamephp']['system']['locale']: The system locale to set, defaults to 'de_DE.UTF-8'

Timezone

• default['codenamephp']['system']['timezone']: The system timezone to set, defaults to 'Europe/Berlin'

Resources

Keyboard Layout

The codenamephp_system_keyboard_layout sets you default system keyboard layout by replacing /etc/default/keyboard with a template where the model, layout and all other XKB settings can be set using attributes. It also sets up monitoring when the template changes during the chef run and informs all dependent services.

You can also pass your own template and set attributes as you like them.

Actions

• :update: Updates the template and restarts services if needed

Properties

• cookbook: The name of the cookbook where the template can be found, defaults to 'codenamephp_system
• template_source: The name of the template file, defaults to 'keyboard_layout.erb'

Examples

# Minimal properties
codenamephp_system_keyboard_layout 'Update keyboard layout'

# With custom template
codenamephp_system_keyboard_layout 'Update keyboard layout' do
  cookbook 'my_cookbook'
  template_source 'my_template.erb'
end

Recipes

Keyboard Layout

The ::keyboard_layout recipe is just a shortcut that calls the codenamephp_system_keyboard_layout without properties

Locale

The ::locale recipe just uses the chef locale resource with the value from default['codenamephp']['system']['locale']

Timezone

The ::timezone recipe just uses the chef timezone resource with the value from default['codenamephp']['system']['timezone']