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AGENTS.md

Cookbook Purpose

Manage Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Universal Forwarder

Agent Findings

• This cookbook is in an incremental modernization pass. Preserve existing public recipes and attributes unless a later full migration is explicitly selected.
• Dependency management should use Policyfile.rb; do not reintroduce Berkshelf.

Known Limitations

This cookbook manages Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Universal Forwarder.

Supported Platforms and Architectures

Based on Splunk 10.0 vendor documentation, the following platforms are supported:

Linux x86_64 / ARM64 (AArch64)

• Ubuntu: 22.04, 24.04
• Debian: 12, 13
• AlmaLinux: 9, 10
• Rocky Linux: 9, 10
• RHEL: 9, 10
• Amazon Linux: 2023
• openSUSE: Leap 16

Systemd Requirement

This cookbook exclusively supports systemd init systems. Legacy sysvinit and upstart support has been removed.

Chef Version Requirement

• Chef Infra Client: 16.0 or newer (required for unified_mode and resource partials)