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Manages /etc/security/limits.d/ config files

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Version information

  • 0.1.0 (latest)
released Jun 9th 2021
This version is compatible with:
  • Puppet Enterprise 2023.2.x, 2023.1.x, 2023.0.x, 2021.7.x, 2021.6.x, 2021.5.x, 2021.4.x, 2021.3.x, 2021.2.x, 2021.1.x, 2021.0.x, 2019.8.x
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  • Bolt
  • Manual installation
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Add this module to your Puppetfile:

mod 'arden-limits', '0.1.0'
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Add this module to your Bolt project:

bolt module add arden-limits
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Manually install this module globally with Puppet module tool:

puppet module install arden-limits --version 0.1.0

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arden/limits — version 0.1.0 Jun 9th 2021

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Table of Contents

  1. Description
  2. Setup - The basics of getting started with limits
  3. Limitations - OS compatibility, etc.
  4. Development - Guide for contributing to the module

Description

This module allows the creation of one or more limits.conf format files within /etc/security/limits.d/ on the target node. These can be declared individually or via the class itself.

Setup

What limits affects

Simply creates limits entries as specified within the target directory.

Setup Requirements

You'll need puppetlabs/stdlib.

Beginning with limits

The following yaml config defines two limits entries:

limits::array_limits:
  sequence: '10',
  header_comment:
    - 'Prevents errors when higher pipeline loads execute.'
    - 'See https://docs-snaplogic.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SD/pages/1438367/Installing+a+Snaplex+on+Linux'
  entries:
    snapuser:
      - item: nproc
        type: soft
        value: 8192
      - item: nproc
        type: hard
        value: 65536
      - item: nofile
        type: soft
        value: 8192
      - item: nofile
        type: hard
        value: 65536
  sap_base:
    sequence: '10'
    header_comment:
      - 'See the RHEL7 master note https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2002167 for detail'
      - 'Note that this may handle Oracle requirements as well'
    entries:
      '@sapsys':
         - item: nproc
           type: soft
           value: unlimited
         - item: nofile
           type: both
           value: 65536
      '@sdba':
         - item: nofile
           type: both
           value: 32800
      '@dba':
         - item: nofile
           type: both
           value: 32800

The following puppet code declares the same limits entries detailed above directly.

limits::file { 'snaplogic_limits':
  sequence       => '10',
  header_comment => [
    'Prevents errors when higher pipeline loads execute.',
    'See https://docs-snaplogic.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SD/pages/1438367/Installing+a+Snaplex+on+Linux',
  ],
  entries        => {
    'snapuser' => [
      {
        'item'  => 'nproc',
        'type'  => 'soft',
        'value' => '8192',
      },
      {
        'item'  => 'nproc',
        'type'  => 'hard',
        'value' => '65536',
      },
      {
        'item'  => 'nofile',
        'type'  => 'soft',
        'value' => '8192',
      },
      {
        'item'  => 'nofile',
        'type'  => 'hard',
        'value' => '65536',
      },
    ],
  },
}

limits::file { 'sap_base':
  sequence       => '10',
  header_comment => [
    'See the RHEL7 master note https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2002167 for detail',
    'Note that this may handle Oracle requirements as well',
  ],
  entries        => {
    '@sapsys' => [
      {
        'item' => 'nproc',
        'type' => 'soft',
        'value' => 'unlimited',
      },
      {
        'item' => 'nofile',
        'type' => 'both',
        'value' => '65536',
      },
    ],
    '@sdba' => [
      {
        'item' => 'nofile',
        'type' => 'both',
        'value' => '32800',
      },
    ],
    '@dba' => [
      {
        'item' => 'nofile',
        'type' => 'both',
        'value' => '32800',
      },
    ],
  },
},

Limitations

Note that while the 'items' are restricted to valid names no validation is performed on their values.

Development

Make a pull request and we'll figure it out!