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chef_cfn (9) Versions 2.1.1

Chef integration with AWS cloudformation

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cookbook 'chef_cfn', '~> 2.1.1', :supermarket
cookbook 'chef_cfn', '~> 2.1.1'
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chef_cfn Cookbook

This cookbook provides tools which aid in the integration of Chef and AWS,
specifically with CloudFormation.

Todo

  • This cookbook will shortly be undergoing a refactor and cleanup

Requirements

Cookbooks:

  • chef_handler
  • python
  • ohai

Attributes

Feature Flags

The recipes included within default.rb my be selectively enabled by toggling
the appropriate feature flags.

<table>
<tr>
<td>Attribute</td>
<td>Description</td>
<td>Default</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>node['cfn']['recipes']['awslogs']</code></td>
<td>Install the cloudwatch logs daemon named awslogs</td>
<td><code>false</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>node['cfn']['recipes']['cloudinit']</code></td>
<td>Configure a stripped down cloud-init to speed up cloud instance startup
time</td>
<td><code>false</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>node['cfn']['recipes']['coudwatch']</code></td>
<td>Install a cloudwatch event handler to report chef runs back to
cloudwatch events.</td>
<td><code>true</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>node['cfn']['recipes']['handler']</code></td>
<td>Deprecated Install a cfn-init chef handler which will report
chef-run success to cloudformatin.
<td><code>true</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>node['cfn']['recipes']['mounts']</code></td>
<td>Format and mount volumes based on metadata provided in cloudformation</td>
<td><code>true</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>node['cfn']['recipes']['ohai']</code></td>
<td>Install an ohai plugin to fetch instance, stack and metadata from ec2.
</td>
<td><code>true</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>node['cfn']['recipes']['shutdown']</code></td>
<td>Deprecated Install a service which will delete the chef client and
node on shutdown</td>
<td><code>true</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>node['cfn']['recipes']['tools']</code></td>
<td>Install the cfn-init and cfn-signal tools</td>
<td><code>true</code></td>
</tr>
</table>

Ohai Attributes

<table>
<tr>
<td>Attribute</td>
<td>Description</td>
<td>Default</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>node['cfn']['vpc']</code></td>
<td>Informaiton related to the VPC</td>
<td><code>{}</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>node['cfn']['tags']</code></td>
<td>Hash of the EC2 instance tags</td>
<td><code>{}</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>node['cfn']['stack']</code></td>
<td>Hash of Cloudformation stack parameters</td>
<td><code>{}</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>node['cfn']['properties']</code></td>
<td>Hash of arbitrary metadata provided in cloudformation</td>
<td><code>{}</code></td>
</tr>
</table>

Recipes

chef_cfn::default

Installs dependencies and includes additional recipes based on feature flags.

chef_cfn::awslogs

Install and configure the cloudwatch logs service

chef_cfn::cloudinit

Configure cloud-init in a more stripped down ec2-specific way. This recipe is mostly of use when packaging AMIs with Packer.

chef_cfn::handler

Install the CFN handler to callback to cloudformation on stack updates. Although this is still here, you'd likely be better off simply calling cfn-signal directly from user-data.

chef_cfn::knife

(optional) Provides a basic knife.rb

chef_cfn::ohai

Installs the aws-sdk chef_gem as well as the ohai[cfn] plugin.
When this runs, it will populate the properties, stack, tags and vpc attribute hashes under the node['cfn'] namespace which may then be used to report signals with the signal handler.

In addition, the properties hash will be merged, and potentially overriden, by any hints set in the cfn hint.

Required IAM policies
{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "Stmt1434370036000",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "cloudformation:DescribeStackResource",
                "ec2:DescribeInstances"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

chef_cfn::handler

Installs a handler to signal cloudformation of the success or failure of the chef run. When used with either Creation or Update profiles in cloudformation, we can ensure that only nodes with valid chef runs are considered healthy.

This may be disabled by setting node.cfn.tools.signal_cloudformation.

Required IAM policies
{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "Stmt1434370036000",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "cloudformation:SignalResource",
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
Example Cloudformation
{
  "AutoScailingGroup": {
    "CreationPolicy": {
      "ResourceSignal": {
        "Count": 1,
        "Timeout": "PT10M"
      }
    },
    "UpdatePolicy": {
      "AutoScalingRollingUpdate": {
        "WaitOnResourceSignals": "true"
      }
    }
  }
}

chef_cfn::mounts

Mounts cloudformation defined volumes.

Please take note that this recipe assumes that cloudformation was responsible to creating and managing the volumes, not chef. As such, all block devices must exist prior to attempting to mount them.

Example Cloudformation Attributes
{
  "AutoScailingGroup": {
    "Metadata": {
      "Mounts": {
        "xvdb3": {
          "mount_point": "/var/log",
          "mount_options": "",
          "filesystem": ""
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

chef_cfn::tools

Installs cloudformation cfn-init tools such as :

  • cfn-init
  • cfn-hup: Periodic polling of cloudformation resource metadata to determine when triggered actions should run.

chef_cfn::shutdown

Installs a service which will delete the node when the instance shuts down.

Resources

chef_cfn_signal

Provides an interface to trigger cloudformation signals from within recipes. This is designed to be used with cloudformation WaitConditions.

Actions

  • signal: Default action

Attribute Parameters

  • url: Url of the resource or WaitHandler to signal
  • unique_id: Unique id of the notification
  • data: Defaults to <code>""</code>.
  • success: Defaults to <code>true</code>.
  • reason: Defaults to <code>"Chef triggered signal from resource"</code>.
  • once: Defaults to <code>true</code>.

Ohai Plugins

CFN

Fetches instance attributes from Cloudformation:DescribeResource as well as EC2:DescribeInstances.

License and Author

Author:: Jonathan Serafini (jonathan@serafini.ca)

Copyright:: 2015, Jonathan Serafini

License:: Apache 2.0

Dependent cookbooks

chef_handler >= 0.0.0
ohai >= 4.0.0
python >= 1.4.0

Contingent cookbooks

There are no cookbooks that are contingent upon this one.

chef_cfn changelog

v2.1.1

  • Add missing cloudwatch configuration attributes

v2.1.0

  • Add cloudwatch events report handler

v2.0.3

  • Add missing ohai feature flag
  • Remove additional cfn init modules

v2.0.2

  • cloud-init bugfixes
  • awslogs service bugfix

v2.0.1

  • Bugfixes

v2.0.0

  • Refactor code for cookstyle
  • Add recipe feature flags to disable some recipes
  • Add boolean to disable cloudformation handler
  • Add awslogs installation

v1.0.0

  • Update ohai recipes to rely on the newer ohai v4+ format

v0.9.2

  • Rubocop auto-correct Style/StringLiterals
  • Rubocop auto-correct Style/TrailingBlankLines
  • Rubocop auto-correct Style/TrailingWhitespace
  • Rubocop auto-correct Lint/DeprecatedClassMethods
  • Rubocop auto-correct Style/SpaceAroundEqualsInParameterDefault
  • Rubocop auto-correct Style/ExtraSpacing
  • Rubocop auto-correct Style/SpaceAfterComma
  • Rubocop auto-correct Style/SpaceAroundOperators
  • Rubocop auto-correct Style/AndOr

v0.9.1

  • Ongoing work

v0.1.0

  • Initial release of chef_cfn

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