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Chef Cookbook - Linux Base

This Chef cookbook will configure some basic system settings, add/remove some common packages, and deploy standard configurations for some common services

Changes Performed

1. Remove the broken Fedora Rawhide repo from CentOS
2. Make sure CentOS has EPEL
3. Remove the following packages from Ubuntu-based systems
   1. landscape-client-ui
   2. landscape-client-ui-install
   3. landscape-client
   4. landscape-common
   5. update-motd
4. Install the following packages on Ubuntu-based systems
   1. bmon
   2. htop
   3. vim
   4. curl
   5. gnupg2
   6. atop
   7. git
   8. molly-guard
   9. python-pip
   10. python-dev
   11. python3-pip
   12. unzip
   13. psmisc
5. Install the following packages on CentOS-based systems
   1. vim-enhanced
   2. curl
   3. htop
   4. gnupg2
   5. git
   6. lsof
   7. telnet
   8. net-tools
   9. bmon
   10. atop
   11. wget
   12. python2-pip
   13. python34-pip
   14. python34-devel
   15. unzip
   16. gcc
   17. psmisc
   18. bind-utils
6. Make sure the /tools directory exists and is accessible only to root
7. install the following python2.7 packages
   1. urllib3
   2. pyasn1
8. Remove root's .bashrc on Ubuntu-based systems
9. Deploy a custom system-wide bashrc and a supporting git.bash file for working in git repos
10. Install thefuck in python3 and configure it with Matthew Ahrenstein's custom rules
11. Install and configure ntp to run off the NTP pool using the America/New_York timezone

Requirements

1. Chef (Tested on Chef 13.6.4)
2. Linux chef-clients (Tested on Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, and CentOS 7.2 but kitchen will let you test anything you want)
3. The apt cookbook from Chef Supermarket
4. The yum-epel cookbook from Chef Supermarket

Installation Tips

1. We personally use Berks to install this into Chef servers, because it will grab the dependencies for you as well.

Limitations

1. None so far :)

Known Issues

1. None so far :)

Use Cases

Getting a minimum base configuration going on new Linux servers

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