yum-amazon (26) Versions 5.0.0 Follow6

Provides yum_amazon_repo resource for managing Amazon Linux 2023 repositories

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yum-amazon Cookbook

The yum-amazon cookbook provides the yum_amazon_repo custom resource for managing Amazon Linux 2023 yum/dnf repository configuration.

See [migration.md](migration.md) for guidance on moving from legacy recipes and node attributes to the yum_amazon_repo resource.

Maintainers

This cookbook is maintained by the Sous Chefs. The Sous Chefs are a community of Chef cookbook maintainers working together to maintain important cookbooks. If you'd like to know more please visit sous-chefs.org or come chat with us on the Chef Community Slack in #sous-chefs.

Requirements

Platforms

Amazon Linux 2023

Chef

Chef >= 15.3

Cookbooks

none

Resources

yum_amazon_repo

See [documentation/yum_amazon_repo.md](documentation/yum_amazon_repo.md) for full property reference.

Actions

:create — Creates the repository (default)
:delete — Removes the repository

Examples

# Main repository with defaults
yum_amazon_repo 'amazonlinux'

# Debug repository (disabled)
yum_amazon_repo 'amazonlinux-debuginfo' do
  description 'Amazon Linux 2023 repository - Debug'
  mirrorlist 'https://cdn.amazonlinux.com/al2023/core/mirrors/$releasever/debuginfo/$basearch/mirror.list'
  enabled false
end

# Source repository (disabled)
yum_amazon_repo 'amazonlinux-source' do
  description 'Amazon Linux 2023 repository - Source packages'
  mirrorlist 'https://cdn.amazonlinux.com/al2023/core/mirrors/$releasever/SRPMS/mirror.list'
  enabled false
end

# Point at an internal mirror
yum_amazon_repo 'amazonlinux' do
  mirrorlist nil
  baseurl 'https://internal.example.com/amazonlinux/2023/$basearch'
  sslverify false
end

# Remove a repository
yum_amazon_repo 'amazonlinux-debuginfo' do
  action :delete
end

License & Authors

Author: Cookbook Engineering Team (cookbooks@chef.io)

Copyright: 2013-2025, Chef Software, 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.

Contributors

This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute.

Backers

Thank you to all our backers!

Dependent cookbooks

This cookbook has no specified dependencies.

Contingent cookbooks

yum-amazon Cookbook CHANGELOG

This file is used to list changes made in each version of the yum-amazon cookbook.

5.0.0 (2026-05-05)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

Amazon Linux 2 support removed. Attribute names changed from amzn2-core* to amazonlinux*.
Cookbook no longer provides recipes. Use yum_amazon_repo resource directly.

Features

modernize for Amazon Linux 2023, drop AL2 support (#35) (73d0b9c)
prepare yum-amazon for release (#38) (c9008dc)

Bug Fixes

ci: Update workflows to use release pipeline (#32) (1e63f99)

4.0.12 (2025-10-16)

Bug Fixes

ci: Update workflows to use release pipeline (#32) (1e63f99)

4.0.6 - 2023-10-31

Use a regexp match in the tests so we don't need to fix the test every month

4.0.5 - 2023-09-29

Standardise files with files in the repo-management

4.0.4 - 2023-02-14

Standardise files with files in the repo-management

4.0.3 - 2023-02-14

Standardise files with files in the repo-management

4.0.2 - 2021-08-31

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

4.0.1 - 2021-06-01

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

4.0.0 - 2021-03-09

Sous Chefs Adoption
Remove Amazonlinux version 1 support
Add InSpec tests
Linting
Fix rspec

3.1.0 (2019-11-18)

Add support for Amazon Linux 2 - @bheusinkveld
Add code owners file - @tas50
Rename the kitchen config - @tas50
Remove stove from the gemfile - @tas50
Cookstyle fixes - @tas50
Update for Chef 15 license agreement and Chef Workstation - @tas50

3.0.0 (2018-02-16)

Require Chef 12.14+ and remove compat_resource dep

2.0.2 (2017-04-26)

Switch from Rake testing to Local Delivery
Update apache2 license string

2.0.1 (2016-12-22)

Remove extra line
Depend on the latest compat_resource cookbook

2.0.0 (2016-11-26)

Clarify that we require Chef 12.1 not 12.0
Require compat_resource instead of yum

1.0.0 (2016-09-06)

Update testing framework
Add chef_version metadata
Remove support for Chef 11

v0.2.3 (2015-12-01)

Fixing if/unless logic in recipe

v0.2.2 (2015-10-28)

Fixing Chef 13 deprecation warnings by not passing nils

v0.2.1 (2014-09-22)

Merge 0.2.0 changes with 0.1.6 release changes

v0.1.6 (2015-09-21) <-- This came after 0.2.0 since 0.2.0 was not in git and was later merged

Update yum depencency from ~3.0 to ~3.2
Add supports metadata for Amazon Linux
Add source_url and issues_url metadata
Add a .foodcritic file
Add standard Chef gitignore and chefignore files
Move the .kitchen.yml file to .kitchen.cloud.yml and add a standard kitchen.yml for vagrant testing
Add the standard chef rubocop config
Update Travis to test on modern Ruby versions
Update berskfile to 3.X format
Update contributing, maintainers, and testing docs
Add standard Gemfile with testing and development dependencies
Add a Guardfile
Add Travis CI and cookbook version badges in the readme
Expand the requirements section in the readme
Add rakefile for simpler testing

v0.2.0 (2014-02-14)

All repos except for the main/updates repos are now set to enabled = false and managed = false. Attributes will need to be set if you'd like to manage these repositories

v0.1.5

Guarding against running outside ec2

v0.1.4

Adding CHANGELOG.md

v0.1.0

initial release

Collaborator Number Metric

5.0.0 passed this metric

Contributing File Metric

5.0.0 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

Cookstyle Metric

5.0.0 passed this metric

No Binaries Metric

5.0.0 passed this metric

Testing File Metric

5.0.0 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 TESTING.md file

Version Tag Metric

5.0.0 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 include a tag that matches this cookbook version number

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yum-amazon Cookbook CHANGELOG

5.0.0 (2026-05-05)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

Features

Bug Fixes

4.0.12 (2025-10-16)

Bug Fixes

4.0.6 - 2023-10-31

4.0.5 - 2023-09-29

4.0.4 - 2023-02-14

4.0.3 - 2023-02-14

4.0.2 - 2021-08-31

4.0.1 - 2021-06-01

4.0.0 - 2021-03-09

3.1.0 (2019-11-18)

3.0.0 (2018-02-16)

2.0.2 (2017-04-26)

2.0.1 (2016-12-22)

2.0.0 (2016-11-26)

1.0.0 (2016-09-06)

v0.2.3 (2015-12-01)

v0.2.2 (2015-10-28)

v0.2.1 (2014-09-22)

v0.1.6 (2015-09-21) <-- This came after 0.2.0 since 0.2.0 was not in git and was later merged

v0.2.0 (2014-02-14)

v0.1.5

v0.1.4

v0.1.0

Collaborator Number Metric 5.0.0 passed this metric

Contributing File Metric 5.0.0 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

Cookstyle Metric 5.0.0 passed this metric

No Binaries Metric 5.0.0 passed this metric

Testing File Metric 5.0.0 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 TESTING.md file

Version Tag Metric 5.0.0 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 include a tag that matches this cookbook version number

Details

Updated May 5, 2026 Created on December 13, 2013

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yum-amazon (26) Versions 5.0.0 Follow6

Collaborator Number Metric

5.0.0 passed this metric

Contributing File Metric

5.0.0 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

Cookstyle Metric

5.0.0 passed this metric

No Binaries Metric

5.0.0 passed this metric

Testing File Metric

5.0.0 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 TESTING.md file

Version Tag Metric

5.0.0 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 include a tag that matches this cookbook version number