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hostsfile (22) Versions 2.4.5

Provides an resource for managing the /etc/hosts file

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cookbook 'hostsfile', '= 2.4.5', :supermarket
cookbook 'hostsfile', '= 2.4.5'
knife supermarket install hostsfile
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hostsfile LWRP

Build Status

hostsfile provides an LWRP for managing your /etc/hosts (or Windows equivalent) file using Chef.

Requirements

  • Chef 11 or higher
  • Ruby 1.9.3 or higher

Please stop opening Pull Requests to restore Ruby 1.8 support! Any of the 1.x.y series of this cookbook will work with Chef 10 and Ruby 1.8. You can use Opscode's Omnibus installer to install Ruby 1.9+ and Seth Chisamore's Vagrant Omnibus plugin to get Ruby 1.9+ on your Vagrant box.

Attributes

<table>
<tr>
<th>Attribute</th>
<th>Description</th>
<th>Example</th>
<th>Default</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ip_address</td>
<td>(name attribute) the IP address for the entry</td>
<td><tt>1.2.3.4</tt></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>hostname</td>
<td>(required) the hostname associated with the entry</td>
<td><tt>example.com</tt></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>unique</td>
<td>remove any existing entries that have the same <tt>hostname</tt></td>
<td><tt>true</tt></td>
<td><tt>false</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>aliases</td>
<td>array of aliases for the entry</td>
<td><tt>['www.example.com']</tt></td>
<td><tt>[]</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>comment</td>
<td>a comment to append to the end of the entry</td>
<td><tt>'interal DNS server'</tt></td>
<td><tt>nil</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>priority</td>
<td>the relative position of this entry</td>
<td><tt>20</tt></td>
<td>(varies, see Priorities section)</td>
</tr>
</table>

Actions

Please note: In v0.1.2, specifying a hostname or alias that existed in another automatically removed that hostname from the other entry before. In v2.1.0, the unique option was added to give the user case-by-case control of this behavior. For example, given an /etc/hosts file that contains:

1.2.3.4          example.com www.example.com

when the Chef recipe below is converged:

hostsfile_entry '2.3.4.5' do
  hostname  'www.example.com'
  unique    true
end

then the /etc/hosts file will look like this:

1.2.3.4          example.com
2.3.4.5          www.example.com

Not specifying the unique parameter will result in duplicate hostsfile entries.

create

Creates a new hosts file entry. If an entry already exists, it will be overwritten by this one.

hostsfile_entry '1.2.3.4' do
  hostname  'example.com'
  action    :create
end

This will create an entry like this:

1.2.3.4          example.com

create_if_missing

Create a new hosts file entry, only if one does not already exist for the given IP address. If one exists, this does nothing.

hostsfile_entry '1.2.3.4' do
  hostname  'example.com'
  action    :create_if_missing
end

append

Append a hostname or alias to an existing record. If the given IP address doesn't already exist in the hostsfile, this method behaves the same as create. Otherwise, it will append the additional hostname and aliases to the existing entry.

1.2.3.4         example.com www.example.com # Created by Chef
hostsfile_entry '1.2.3.4' do
  hostname  'www2.example.com'
  aliases   ['foo.com', 'foobar.com']
  comment   'Append by Recipe X'
  action    :append
end

would yield:

1.2.3.4         example.com www.example.com www2.example.com foo.com foobar.com # Created by Chef, Appended by Recipe X

update

Updates the given hosts file entry. Does nothing if the entry does not exist.

hostsfile_entry '1.2.3.4' do
  hostname  'example.com'
  comment   'Update by Chef'
  action    :update
end

This will create an entry like this:

1.2.3.4           example # Updated by Chef

remove

Removes an entry from the hosts file. Does nothing if the entry does not
exist.

hostsfile_entry '1.2.3.4' do
  action    :remove
end

This will remove the entry for 1.2.3.4.

Usage

If you're using Berkshelf, just add hostsfile to your Berksfile:

cookbook 'hostsfile'

Otherwise, install the cookbook from the community site:

knife cookbook site install hostsfile

Have any other cookbooks depend on hostsfile by editing editing the metadata.rb for your cookbook.

# metadata.rb
depends 'hostsfile'

Note that you can specify a custom path to your hosts file in the ['hostsfile']['path'] node attribute. Otherwise, it defaults to sensible paths depending on your OS.

Testing

If you are using ChefSpec to unit test a cookbook that implements the hostsfile_entry LWRP, this cookbook packages customer matchers that you can use in your unit tests:

  • append_hostsfile_entry
  • create_hostsfile_entry
  • create_hostsfile_entry_if_missing
  • remove_hostsfile_entry
  • update_hostsfile_entry

For example:

it 'creates a hostsfile entry for the DNS server' do
  expect(chef_run).to create_hostsfile_entry('1.2.3.4')
    .with_hostname('dns.example.com')
end

Priority

Priority is a relatively new addition to the cookbook. It gives you the ability to (somewhat) specify the relative order of entries. By default, the priority is calculated for you as follows:

  1. Local, loopback
  2. IPV4
  3. IPV6

However, you can override it using the priority option.

Contributing

  1. Fork the project
  2. Create a feature branch corresponding to you change
  3. Commit and test thoroughly
  4. Create a Pull Request on github

License & Authors

Copyright 2012-2013, Seth Vargo
Copyright 2012, CustomInk, LLC

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.

Dependent cookbooks

This cookbook has no specified dependencies.

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FC059: LWRP provider does not declare use_inline_resources: hostsfile/providers/entry.rb:1
FC064: Ensure issues_url is set in metadata: hostsfile/metadata.rb:1
FC065: Ensure source_url is set in metadata: hostsfile/metadata.rb:1
FC066: Ensure chef_version is set in metadata: hostsfile/metadata.rb:1
FC067: Ensure at least one platform supported in metadata: hostsfile/metadata.rb:1
FC069: Ensure standardized license defined in metadata: hostsfile/metadata.rb:1
Run with Foodcritic Version 11.3.0 with tags metadata,correctness ~FC031 ~FC045 and failure tags any

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