DESCRIPTION:¶ ↑

Installs and configures the Cloudkick Agent, and integrates it with Chef.

REQUIREMENTS:¶ ↑

You must be running a platform supported by the Cloudkick Agent - at this time, that means Ubuntu, CentOS or Red Hat.

USAGE:¶ ↑

In order for the agent to function, you’ll need to have defined your Cloudkick API key and secret. We recommend you do this in a Role, which should also take care of applying the cloudkick::default recipe.

Assuming you name the role ‘cloudkick’, here is the required json:

{
  "name": "cloudkick",
  "chef_type": "role",
  "json_class": "Chef::Role",
  "default_attributes": {

  },
  "description": "Configures Cloudkick",
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[cloudkick]"
  ],
  "override_attributes": {
    "cloudkick": {
      "oauth_key": "YOUR KEY HERE"
      "oauth_secret": "YOUR SECRET HERE"
    }
  }
}

If you want Cloudkick installed everywhere, we recommend you just add the cloudkick attributes to a base role.

All of the data about the node from Cloudkick is available in node - for example:

"cloudkick": {
  "oauth_key": "YOUR KEY HERE",
  "oauth_secret": "YOUR SECRET HERE",
  "data": {
    "name": "slice204393",
    "status": "running",
    "ipaddress": "173.203.83.199",
    "provider_id": "padc2665",
    "tags": [
      "agent",
      "cloudkick"
    ],
    "agent_state": "connected",
    "id": "n87cfc79c5",
    "provider_name": "Rackspace",
    "color": "#fffffff"
  }
}

Of particular interest is the inclusion of the Cloudkick tags. This will allow you to search Chef via tags placed on nodes within Cloudkick:

$ knife search node 'cloudkick_data_tags:agent' -a fqdn
{
  "rows": [
    {
      "fqdn": "slice204393",
      "id": "slice204393"
    }
  ],
  "start": 0,
  "total": 1
}

We automatically add a tag for each Role applied to your node. For example, if your node had a run list of:

"run_list": [ "role[webserver]", "role[database_master]" ]

The node will automatically have the ‘webserver’ and ‘database_master’ tags within Cloudkick.