Control Groups

Manage control groups (cgroups) via chef!

Supported platforms

Debian 12
Ubuntu 24.04

See LIMITATIONS.md for the researched support policy and unsupported platforms.

Current unit verification passes on this repository. The Kitchen suites (default, entry, and rule) run on Debian 12 and Ubuntu 24.04 with manage_runtime false because Dokken/cgroup-v2 containers cannot start the legacy libcgroup mount workflow. See LIMITATIONS.md for the runtime caveat.

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Example usage

control_groups_install 'default'

control_groups_entry 'lackresources' do
  memory('memory.max' => '1048576')
  cpu('cpu.max' => '10000 100000')
end

control_groups_rule 'someuser' do
  controllers %w(cpu memory)
  destination 'lackresources'
end