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Provides an resource for managing the /etc/hosts file

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hostsfile cookbook

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

Requirements

Chef 11 or higher

Attributes

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

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 resource, 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:

127.0.0.1
::1
127.0.0.0/8
IPV4
IPV6
default

However, you can override it using the priority option.

Contributing

Fork the project
Create a feature branch corresponding to you change
Commit and test thoroughly
Create a Pull Request on github

License & Authors

Author:: Seth Vargo (sethvargo@gmail.com)

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.

Contingent cookbooks

hostsfile Cookbook CHANGELOG

This file is used to list changes made in each version of the hostsfile cookbook.

v3.0.0 (2017-08-22)

Converted the LWRP to a custom resource which increases the required Chef release to 12.7
Namespaced the helper libraries under the HostsFile module to prevent method collisions with other resources or the chef-client itself

v2.4.6 (2017-08-15)

use openssl for FIPS compatibility
Expand priority documentation in README
Add ::1 loopback to test cases and priority settings

v2.4.5 (2014-06-24)

Fix notifications and why-run mode

v2.4.4 (2014-02-25)

Bump Berkshelf version
Remove scope pieces from IPv6 addresses

v2.4.3 (2014-02-01)

Package custom ChefSpec matchers
Update testing harness
Avoid using Chef::Application.fatal!
Use Chef::Resource::File for atomic updates

v2.4.2

Fix Travis CI integration
Remove newline characters
Allow specifying a custom hostsfile path

v2.4.1

Force a new upload to the community site

v2.4.0

Convert everything to Ruby 1.9 syntax because I'm tired of people removing trailing commas despite the massive warning in the README: (#29, #30, #32, #33, #34, #35, #36, #38, #39)
Update to the latest and greatest testing gems and practices
Remove strainer in favor of a purer solution
Update .gitignore to ignore additional files
Add more platforms to the .kitchen.yml
Use converge_by and support whyruny mode

v2.0.0

Completely manage the hostsfile, ensuring no duplicate entries

v1.0.2

Support Windows (thanks @igantt-daptiv)
Specs + Travis support
Throw fatal error if hostsfile does not exist (@jkerzner)
Write priorities in hostsfile so they are read on subsequent Chef runs

v0.2.0

Updated README to require Ruby 1.9
Allow hypens in hostnames
Ensure newline at end of file
Allow priority ordering in hostsfile

v0.1.1

Fixed issue #1
Better unique object filtering
Better handing of aliases

v0.1.0

Initial release

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hostsfile cookbook

Requirements

Attributes

Actions

create

create_if_missing

append

update

remove

Usage

Testing

Priority

Contributing

License & Authors

Dependent cookbooks

Contingent cookbooks

hostsfile Cookbook CHANGELOG

v3.0.0 (2017-08-22)

v2.4.6 (2017-08-15)

v2.4.5 (2014-06-24)

v2.4.4 (2014-02-25)

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Updated August 23, 2017 Created on August 3, 2012

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hostsfile (22) Versions 3.0.0 Follow101

`create`

`create_if_missing`

`append`

`update`

`remove`

Collaborator Number Metric

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Contributing File Metric

3.0.0 failed this metric

Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must contain a CONTRIBUTING.md file

Foodcritic Metric

3.0.0 passed this metric

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No Binaries Metric

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3.0.0 failed this metric

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