cobbler-cookbook

Installs and configures Cobbler and Cobbler Web.

Supported Platforms

• CentOS 6.5, 5.10
• Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04

Attributes

Key	Type	Description	Default
['cobbler']['root_password']	String	Root password for Kickstart templates.	`echo 'root' | shasum -a 512 -p`
['cobbler']['user']['password']	String	Root password for Kickstart templates.	`echo 'cloud' | shasum -a 512 -p`
['cobbler']['user']['name']	String	UNIX username	cloud
['cobbler']['user']['uid']	Integer	UNIX uid	900

Usage

cobbler::default

Include cobblerd in your node's run_list:

{
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[cobblerd::default]"
  ]
}

This installs Cobbler on your machine

cobbler::source

Include cobblerd::source in your node's run_list:

{
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[cobblerd::default]"
  ]
}

This builds Cobbler from source code

cobbler::web

Include cobblerd::web in your node's run_list:

{
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[cobblerd::web]"
  ]
}

This provides the Cobbler web interface

cobbler::centos

Include cobblerd::centos in your node's run_list:

{
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[cobblerd::centos]"
  ]
}

This provides a CentOS image via Cobbler

cobbler::ubuntu

Include cobblerd::ubuntu in your node's run_list:

{
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[cobblerd::ubuntu]"
  ]
}

This provides an Ubuntu image via Cobbler

Maintainers

Author:: Bloomberg Compute Architecture Group (compute@bloomberg.net)

Maintainers

To build and test, one can run the following (this done using ChefDK binaries):

• bundler package
• kitchen verify '.*'