Chef cookbook for linux basic configuration like following recipes.

• coredump
• cron
• dns
• shell environment
• groups
• hosts
• init
• ipv6
• kdump
• kernel
• locale
• mail
• motd
• network
• ntp
• pkg
• proxy
• rsyslog
• selinux
• service
• snmp
• ssh
• sudo
• timezone
• users
• yum

Platform:

• CentOS-5.x,6.x, Red Hat

The following Opscode cookbooks are dependencies:

• chef-client, yum

• cookbooks/ - Cookbooks you download.
• data_bags/ - Store data bags and items in .json in the repository.
• environments/ - Store environments in or .json in the repository.
• roles/ - Store roles in or .json in the repository.
• site-cookbooks/ - Cookbooks you create.

• 1. Download cookbook from https://supermarket.chef.io

# berks vendor cookbooks

• 2. Update some files for your environment

data_bags/groups/*
data_bags/users/*
site-cookbooks/linux/attributes/*

• 3. Create node and add role:linux to run_list

# knife node create NODE

json example:

{
  "name": "NODE",
  "chef_environment": "development",
  "normal": {
    "tags": [

    ],
    "description": "DESCRIPTION"
  },
  "run_list": [
    "role[linux]"
  ]
}