diff --git a/jenkins-scripts/basic_settings.sh b/jenkins-scripts/basic_settings.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+# @License EPL-1.0 <http://spdx.org/licenses/EPL-1.0>
+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2016 The Linux Foundation and others.
+#
+# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+# are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
+# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+# http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+##############################################################################
+
+case "$(facter operatingsystem)" in
+  Ubuntu)
+    apt-get update
+    ;;
+  *)
+    # Do nothing on other distros for now
+    ;;
+esac
+
+IPADDR=$(facter ipaddress)
+HOSTNAME=$(facter hostname)
+FQDN=$(facter fqdn)
+
+echo "${IPADDR} ${HOSTNAME} ${FQDN}" >> /etc/hosts
+
+#Increase limits
+cat <<EOF > /etc/security/limits.d/jenkins.conf
+jenkins         soft    nofile          16000
+jenkins         hard    nofile          16000
+EOF
+
+cat <<EOSSH >> /etc/ssh/ssh_config
+Host *
+  ServerAliveInterval 60
+
+# we don't want to do SSH host key checking on spin-up systems
+Host 10.30.122.*
+  StrictHostKeyChecking no
+  UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null
+EOSSH
+
+cat <<EOKNOWN >  /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts
+github.com ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAq2A7hRGmdnm9tUDbO9IDSwBK6TbQa+PXYPCPy6rbTrTtw7PHkccKrpp0yVhp5HdEIcKr6pLlVDBfOLX9QUsyCOV0wzfjIJNlGEYsdlLJizHhbn2mUjvSAHQqZETYP81eFzLQNnPHt4EVVUh7VfDESU84KezmD5QlWpXLmvU31/yMf+Se8xhHTvKSCZIFImWwoG6mbUoWf9nzpIoaSjB+weqqUUmpaaasXVal72J+UX2B+2RPW3RcT0eOzQgqlJL3RKrTJvdsjE3JEAvGq3lGHSZXy28G3skua2SmVi/w4yCE6gbODqnTWlg7+wC604ydGXA8VJiS5ap43JXiUFFAaQ==
+EOKNOWN
+
+# vim: sw=2 ts=2 sts=2 et :