enable amazon platform support for splunk forwarder

This commit addes support for the amazon platform family to install
splunk forwarder on EC2 instances using the Amazon Linux AMI

.kitchen.ec2.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+---
+  driver:
+    name: ec2
+    aws_ssh_key_id: kiri-aws
+    security_group_ids: ["sg-1a31097d"]
+    subnet_id: subnet-b901dae1
+    region: us-west-1
+    availability_zone: us-west-1c
+    require_chef_omnibus: true
+    instance_type: t2.micro
+    associate_public_ip: true
+
+  provisioner:
+  name: chef_zero
+  deprecations_as_errors: true
+  data_bags_path: "test/fixtures/data_bags"
+  cookbook_path: "./cookbooks"
+
+  transport:
+  ssh_key: /Users/kiri/.ssh/kiri-aws.pem
+  connection_timeout: 10
+  connection_retries: 5
+  username: ec2-user
+
+  platforms:
+    - name: amazonlinux
+      driver:
+        image_id: ami-3a674d5a
+      transport:
+        ssh_key: /Users/kiri/.ssh/kiri-aws.pem
+        username: ec2-user
+
+  suites:
+  - name: client
+    run_list:
+      - recipe[chef-splunk::default]
+      - recipe[test::default]
+    attributes:
+      dev_mode: true
+      splunk:
+        accept_license: true
+
+
+  - name: client-inputs-outputs
+    run_list:
+      - recipe[chef-splunk::default]
+      - recipe[test::default]
+    attributes:
+      dev_mode: true
+      splunk:
+        accept_license: true
+        outputs_conf:
+          sslCommonNameToCheck: sslCommonName
+          sslCertPath: $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/certs/cert.pem
+          sslPassword: password
+          sslRootCAPath: $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/certs/cacert.pem
+          sslVerifyServerCert: false
+        inputs_conf:
+          host: localhost
+          ports:
+            - port_num: 123123
+              config:
+                connection_host: dns
+                sourcetype: syslog
+                source: tcp:123123
+
+  - name: client_lwrps
+    run_list:
+      - recipe[chef-splunk::default]
+      - recipe[test::default]
+    attributes:
+      dev_mode: true
+      splunk:
+        server:
+          runasroot: false
+        accept_license: true
+        is_server: false

attributes/default.rb

@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
 default['splunk']['splunk_servers'] = []
 
 case node['platform_family']
-when 'rhel', 'fedora', 'suse'
+when 'rhel', 'fedora', 'suse', 'amazon'
   if node['kernel']['machine'] == 'x86_64'
     default['splunk']['forwarder']['url'] = 'https://download.splunk.com/products/universalforwarder/releases/6.6.0/linux/splunkforwarder-6.6.0-1c4f3bbe1aea-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm'
     default['splunk']['server']['url'] = 'https://download.splunk.com/products/splunk/releases/6.6.0/linux/splunk-6.6.0-1c4f3bbe1aea-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm'

attributes/upgrade.rb

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 #
 if node['splunk']['upgrade_enabled']
   case node['platform_family']
-  when 'rhel', 'fedora'
+  when 'rhel', 'fedora', 'amazon'
     if node['kernel']['machine'] == 'x86_64'
       default['splunk']['upgrade']['server_url'] = 'http://download.splunk.com/releases/4.3.7/splunk/linux/splunk-4.3.7-181874-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm'
       default['splunk']['upgrade']['forwarder_url'] = 'http://download.splunk.com/releases/4.3.7/universalforwarder/linux/splunkforwarder-4.3.7-181874-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm'

definitions/splunk_installer.rb

@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@
   end
 
   local_package_resource = case node['platform_family']
-                           when 'rhel', 'fedora', 'suse'  then :rpm_package
-                           when 'debian'                  then :dpkg_package
-                           when 'omnios'                  then :solaris_package
+                           when 'rhel', 'fedora', 'suse', 'amazon'  then :rpm_package
+                           when 'debian'                            then :dpkg_package
+                           when 'omnios'                            then :solaris_package
                            end
 
   declare_resource local_package_resource, params[:name] do