Most cloud providers will generate a unique machine ID or name based on the parameters provided at launch time. On AWS, this will generally be "i-xyz123" on other providers like Digital Ocean it will be the human-assigned instance name eg "host1".
What they fail to do, is to set the FQDN of the server to anything useful. And sure, you could set it via your own Puppet code chucked into SOE, or you could add it as more bloat to your user data, but let's do something properly for once and have a nice tidy module for it. :-)
- Sets the FDQN hostname on a server.
- Reload services that get impacted by hostname changes.
- Planned: Also set DNS names on services like Route53.
Set the desired domain name via Hiera, and it will be appended:
hostname::domain: example.com
You can also define an array of services to reload after the hostname change: (just remember that the services must be defined in Puppet first)
hostname::reloads:
- rsyslog
If you wish to override the default system hostname entirely, you can set both the hostname and the domain, eg:
hostname::hostname: host1
hostname::domain: example.com
Also, the module can update /etc/hosts if so desired, eg:
hostname::updatehosts: true
Include the module in the usual fashion, ideally somewhere like your SOE module so your hostname is set before the installation of most services.
No additional modules are required to make hostnames module work.
Contributions via the form of Pull Requests always welcome. Ideas for PRs include:
- Setting of DNS on popular providers.
- Generate of machine IDs in new and creative ways.
- Finding the machine ID via reverse DNS?
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