Go Ethereum Cookbook

This is a Chef cookbook to install, manage and deploy configuration for geth.

Repository

https://github.com/nikitasobolevsky/chef-geth

Supported OS

This cookbook was tested on Amazon & Ubuntu Linux and expected to work on other RHEL platforms.

Cookbook Dependency

• toml
• tar

Core Attributes

• default['geth']['conf_file'] (default: /etc/geth.toml): Geth configuration file.
• default['geth']['uri'] uri to gzip archive Go Ethereum Node.
• default['geth']['sha'] sha256 control sum of gzip archive.
• default['geth']['config']['Node']['DataDir'] (default: /opt/geth): Geth datadir
• default['geth']['config']['Eth.Ethash']['DatasetDir'] (default: /opt/ethash): Geth DatasetDir

Contributing

1. Fork the repository on Github
2. Create a named feature branch (like add_component_x)
3. Write your change
4. Write tests for your change (if applicable)
5. Run the tests (rake & rake knife), ensuring they all pass
6. Write new resource/attribute description to README.md
7. Write description about changes to PR
8. Submit a Pull Request using Github

Copyright & License

Authors: Nikita Sobolevsky and [Contributors]

Licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0, also included in our repository in the LICENSE file.