Effortless Variables and Config

Plan Variables and Chef Habitat Configurations

This documents the options for both your plan and your habitat configuration file.

You can use all the default plan variables shipped with Chef Habitat. Read more about plan variables in the Chef Habitat documentation.

scaffold_chef_client: The Chef Habitat chef-infra-client package used. Change to use a different package. Default is chef/chef-infra-client
scaffold_cacerts: The Chef Habitat cacerts package used during the Chef Infra Client run. Change to use a different package.Default is chef/cacerts
scaffold_policyfile_path: Path to the policyfile. Default is $PLAN_CONTEXT/../policyfiles
scaffold_data_bags_path: Path to the data_bags directory that contains the data_bags, if needed by your cookbook. Default is $PLAN_CONTEXT/../data_bags

interval: Frequency of how often in seconds that the Chef Infra Client runs. Default is 1800
splay: A randomly generated sleep time value in seconds added to the interval and helps determine when the chef-client runs again. Default is 1800
splay_first_run: Splay value in seconds for the first run of the Chef Infra Client. Default is 0
run_lock_timeout: Amount of time in seconds for the run lock timeout for the Chef Infra Client run. Default is 1800
log_level: Log level for the chef-client. Default is warn
env_path_prefix: String that will be the Environment Path variable for the chef-client run. Linux Default is /sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin. Windows Default is ;C:/WINDOWS;C:/WINDOWS/system32/;C:/WINDOWS/system32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0;C:/ProgramData/chocolatey/bin
ssl_verify_mode: SSL Verification mode for the Chef Infra Client. Default is :verify_peer
verify_api_cert: Boolean option to determine if the API certification should be verified. Default is false

This configuration needs to be under the [chef_license] block in the .toml file.

acceptance: Determines the Chef license acceptance at run time. Required for Chef Infra Client. See Chef License here. Default is undefined

These configurations need to be under the [automate] block in the .toml file.

enable: Enables or disables reporting to Chef Automate. Boolean. Default is false
server_url: Chef Automate server URL. Example: https://automate.example.com/data-collector/v0/. Default is https://<automate_url>
token: Chef Automate API token. Example: GR4_yqRNUtWFVgnVh57GQL9Hh9I=. Default is <automate_token>

scaffold_inspec_client: The Chef Habitat inspec package. Change to use a different package. Default is chef/inspec This variable is required if the profile had a depends line for compliance in the inspec.yml example as shown below
scaffold_cacerts: The Chef Habitat cacerts package during the Chef Infra Client run. Change to use a different package. Default is chef/cacerts. This variable is required if the profile had a depends line for compliance in the inspec.yml example as shown below

inspec.yml

depends:
  - name: cis-rhel7-level1-server
    compliance: admin/cis-rhel7-level1-server

scaffold_automate_server_url: Points to the Chef Automate server needed to fetch profile dependencies from the Chef Automate Asset Store. Example: https://automate.example.com. Required if the profile uses a line for compliance in the inspec.yml
scaffold_automate_user: Chef Automate user for the installed profile
scaffold_automate_token: Chef Automate API token

interval: How often in seconds that inspec runs. Default is 1800
splay: A randomly generated sleep time value in seconds added to the interval and helps determine when the chef-client runs again. Default is 1800
splay_first_run: Splay value in seconds for the first run of the inspec client. Default is 0
log_level: Log level for the inspec client. Default is warn

This configuration needs to be under the [chef_license] block in the .toml file.

acceptance: Determines the Chef license acceptance at run time. This setting is required for chef-client to run successfully. See Chef License here. Default is undefined

These configurations need to be under the [automate] block in your toml file.

enable: Enables or disables reporting to Chef Automate. Boolean. Default is false
server_url: The Chef Automate server URL. Example: https://automate.example.com/data-collector/v0/. Default is https://<automate_url>
token: Chef Automate API token. Example: GR4_yqRNUtWFVgnVh57GQL9Hh9I=. Default is <automate_token>
environment: (Optional) Environment tag for the Chef InSpec report. Use this tag to help with filtering in Chef Automate.