Managed Hosts File

Manage your hosts file with chef.

Base configurables:

• default[:hosts_file][:path] = '/etc/hosts'
• default[:hosts_file][:define_self] = 'ip_address' # or 'loopback' or 'localhost_only'

Via Attributes

override_attributes(
  :hosts_file => {
    :custom_entries => {
      '192.168.0.100' => 'www.google.com',
      '192.168.0.101' => %w(www.yahoo.com www.altavista.com)
    }
  }
)

Via LWRP

hosts_file_entry '192.168.0.100' do
  hostname 'www.google.com'
  aliases %w(google.com gmail.com www.gmail.com)
  comment "Override some google lookups"
end

and ensure you add the default recipe to the run list:

run_list(["recipe[hosts_file]"])

Repo:

• https://github.com/hw-cookbooks/hosts_file