How do I create Splunk users with Chef?

[aaronclementsny]

How do I provision Splunk user accounts with Chef? Is this even possible?

[kamal2222ahmed]

group node['splunk']['user']['username'] do
  gid node['splunk']['user']['uid'].to_i 
  system true if %w(linux).include?(node['os'])
end

user node['splunk']['user']['username'] do
  comment node['splunk']['user']['comment']
  shell node['splunk']['user']['shell']
  gid node['splunk']['user']['username']
  uid node['splunk']['user']['uid']
  home node['splunk']['user']['home']
  system true if %w(linux).include?(node['os'])
end

[Damien_Dallimor]

Not a direct answer to your question , but it made me think of these Splunk Chef Recipes on Github that may come in handy for you : https://github.com/bestbuycom/splunk_cookbook

[grijhwani]

How depends very much on how you control authentication and authorisation.

If you use some form of network-based authentication/authorisation (LDAP against a slapd server or Microsoft AD, for instance), then you need to target your updates to those services.

How do you go about adding users/roles presently?

[sowings]

If chef can execute scripts on your behalf, there's always splunk add user from the CLI. When I worked on a Splunk OEM before, that's what we did.

[aaronclementsny]

They are currently added manually. We'd like to avoid the LDAP option as we control access to our servers with chef. It would be great if we could control user-creation with Chef. However if Splunk isn't built for it, I'll back off before wasting too much time.