bambooengineering / chef-unattended-upgrades

Chef cookbook for installing and configuring the unattended-upgrades package on Ubuntu

chef-unattended-upgrades

Chef cookbook for installing and configuring the unattended-upgrades package on Ubuntu

Requirements

Requires Ubuntu and the apt package. Only tested on 12.04 LTS.

Usage

Simply include the recipe chef-unattended-upgrades or use:

cookbook cb, :git => "[email protected]:firstbanco/chef-unattended-upgrades"

In the default configuration, this recipe will perform daily security upgrades.

If the send_email attribute is true, the mailtools package will be installed as well.

Attributes

• node['unattended-upgrades']['origins'] - An array containing (origin,archive) pairs. Controls where packages can be installed from. Defaults to ${distro_id} ${distro_codename}-security
• node['unattended-upgrades']['update_package_lists_interval'] - The number of days between package list updates. Defaults to 1.
• node['unattended-upgrades']['upgrade_interval'] - The number of days between package upgrades. Defaults to 1.
• node['unattended-upgrades']['send_email'] - Whether email should be sent. Boolean. Defaults to false.
• node['unattended-upgrades']['email_address'] - Address for email reports. Defaults to "root@localhost".
• node['unattended-upgrades']['auto_remove'] - Whether unneeded deps should be removed. Boolean. Defaults to false.
• node['unattended-upgrades']['auto_reboot'] - Whether required reboots should happen automatically. Boolean. Defaults to false.

chef-unattended-upgrades's Issues

Publish to community site?

This is awesome. Any chance you'd publish it on the official site for exposure and canonicality (if that's a word)? :)