CopperEgg RevealCloud Agent

Chef cookbook for the RevealCloud collector agent.
Requires a CopperEgg account to use. Free trial available.

Requirements

bash

Platform

Any Linux 2.6+ OS, including: Ubuntu, Debian, Vyatta, RedHat Enterprise, CentOS, Fedora, Amazon, SuSE, openSuSE, Gentoo, and many derivatives.
FreeBSD 7.x+

Attributes

default[:copperegg][:apikey] = Your API Key available from the RevealCloud App Settings Page.
default[:copperegg][:tags] = A comma separated list of tags to apply. Optional. Manage your tags.
default[:copperegg][:label] = Label to apply in place of hostname when displaying in the dashboard. WARNING: If you want the same label applied to multiple systems, you may want to consider tags instead. This is most useful if you intend a recipe for a single server. Optional.
default[:copperegg][:proxy] = Proxy server required to talk to the revealcloud api servers, such as myproxy.mycorp.com:8080. Optional. Leave blank unless you know what you are doing.

Usage

Download into your chef-repo, either manually from the community chef webpage or:

knife cookbook site download revealcloud

Set your apikey as described in the Attributes section.

edit revealcloud/attributes/default.rb and change YOUR_USER_API_KEY to be correct.

Set any other optional attributes described above, as desired.
Upload the cookbook to your chef server or hosted chef:

knife cookbook upload -a -o revealcloud

Include recipe[revealcloud] in the run_list for all of your servers.

knife node run_list add NODES 'recipe[revealcloud]'

Run chef-client on your nodes in whatever manner suits you, such as sudo chef-client or a batch job.
View your systems within 10 seconds in the RevealCloud App

Links

License and Author

Author:: Ross Dickey

Copyright 2012, CopperEgg, Inc.

No License. Redistribution encouraged.