Cookbook 'alphard-chef-alphard-chef-newrelic-infrastructurestructure'

This cookbook installs and configures the New Relic Infrastructure agent.

Requirements

Platforms

• RHEL
  • CentOS 7
  • CentOS 6
  • Amazon Linux (all versions)
• Ubuntu
  • 16 Xenial
  • 14 Trusty
  • 12 Precise
• Debian
  • 10 Buster
  • 9 Stretch
  • 8 Jessie
  • 7 Wheezy

Chef

• Chef 12+

Cookbooks

• none

Recipes

default

Include the default recipe to install and configure the New Relic Infrastructure agent.

agent

The agent recipe will validate required attributes and do basic platform detection to decide which platform specific recipe to include.

agent_linux

The agent_linux recipe:

1. Adds the alphard-chef-newrelic-infrastructure package repository source
2. Installs|upgrades|removes alphard-chef-newrelic-infrastructure package
3. Sets up the alphard-chef-newrelic-infrastructure agent service
4. Sets the alphard-chef-newrelic-infrastructure.yml config file

agent_windows

(Available in the future)

Attributes

See attributes/defaults.rb for default values.

• node['alphard']['newrelic']['infrastructure']['license_key'] - Your New Relic license key.
• node['alphard']['newrelic']['infrastructure']['log_file'] - Override system log file location by providing Log path and file name.
• node['alphard']['newrelic']['infrastructure']['verbose'] - Log verbosity setting. Type: String
• node['alphard']['newrelic']['infrastructure']['proxy'] - Your proxy url if required.
• node['alphard']['newrelic']['infrastructure']['agent_action'] - alphard-chef-newrelic-infrastructure package actions. Values:
  • 'install': (Default) Installs package. If 'agent_version' is specified, installs specific version.
  • 'upgrade': Installs package and/or ensures it's the latest version.
  • 'remove': Removes the package.
• node['alphard']['newrelic']['infrastructure']['agent_version'] - Specify alphard-chef-newrelic-infrastructure package version to pin.

Usage

1. Add the alphard-chef-newrelic-infrastructure cookbook dependency to your metadata.rb or Berksfile
2. Set node['alphard']['newrelic']['infrastructure']['license_key'] attribute with your New Relic license key
3. Include default recipe or add it to your run list

Contributing

1. Fork the repository on Github
2. Create a named feature branch (like add_component_x)
3. Write your change
4. Write tests for your change (if applicable)
5. Run the tests, ensuring they all pass
6. Submit a Pull Request using Github

License

Copyright 2009-2016, Hydra Technologies, Inc

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.

Authors

• Frédéric Nowak - frederic.nowak@hydra-technologies.net