[chef] Re: Re: RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: Deploying .war files?

[Seth Chisamore < >]

Edmund,
I was looking over your enhancements/changes in the application and tomcat 
cookbooks...good stuff!

I def want to move all recipes in the application cookbook over to LWRPs (vs 
definitions as you mention). I would also really like to merge in your 
tomcat_context LWRP, this would make deploying multiple WARs into a single 
tomcat instance easier! 
Seth

-- 
Opscode, Inc.
Seth Chisamore, Senior Technical Evangelist
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On Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Haselwanter Edmund wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've uploaded a reworked application and tomcat cookbook
> 
> http://www.iteh.at/en/blog/2011/06/23/deployment-of-java-web-applications-with-chef-from-opscode/
> https://github.com/iteh/vagrant-demos/tree/master/vagrant-java-application-reworked
> 
> which allows for something like this:
> 
> # load a json or do a search like in the application cookbook
> # 
> https://github.com/iteh/vagrant-demos/blob/master/vagrant-java-application-reworked/databags/apps/java_app.json
> 
> 
> app = JSON.parse(File.open( File.join( File.dirname(__FILE__), \ 
> "../databags/my_webapp.json")).read)
> 
> node.run_state[:current_app] = app
> 
> application_java_webapp “my_webapp”
> application_tomcat “my_webapp_tomcat”
> 
> node.run_state.delete(:current_app)
> 
> it uses a tomcat_context LWRP with shasum checking
> 
> tomcat_context app['path'] do
> config "#{app['deploy_to']}/shared/#{app['id']}.xml"
> checksum app['war'][node.app_environment]['checksum']
> admin node["tomcat"]["admin"]
> password node["tomcat"]["password"]
> action [:update,:start]
> end
> 
> 
> might need some tuning and cleanup
> 
> i think the definition should move to a LWRP too
> 
> cu edi
> 
> On 22.06.2011, at 20:11, Matthew Drobnak wrote:
> > Ok, so I did the following:
> > 
> > Created a role called spark_server:
> > 
> > {
> >  "name": "spark_server",
> >  "default_attributes": {
> >  },
> >  "json_class": "Chef::Role",
> >  "env_run_lists": {
> >  },
> >  "run_list": [
> >  "recipe[application]"
> >  ],
> >  "description": "Spark Tomcat Server",
> >  "chef_type": "role",
> >  "override_attributes": {
> >  }
> > }
> > 
> > Created data bag apps:
> > 
> > {
> >  "group": "nogroup",
> >  "server_roles": [
> >  "spark_server"
> >  ],
> >  "databases": {
> >  "_default": {
> >  "max_active": "100",
> >  "port": "1433",
> >  "username": "user",
> >  "adapter": "sqlserver",
> >  "max_idle": "30",
> >  "database": "appname",
> >  "driver": "com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver",
> >  "max_wait": "10000",
> >  "password": "awesome_password"
> >  },
> >  "dev": {
> >  "max_active": "100",
> >  "port": "1433",
> >  "username": "user",
> >  "adapter": "sqlserver",
> >  "max_idle": "30",
> >  "database": "appname",
> >  "driver": "com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver",
> >  "max_wait": "10000",
> >  "password": "apppass"
> >  }
> >  },
> >  "id": "AppName",
> >  "mysql_repl_password": {
> >  "_default": "mysql_repl"
> >  },
> >  "type": {
> >  "spark_server": [
> >  "java_webapp",
> >  "tomcat"
> >  ]
> >  },
> >  "war": {
> >  "_default": {
> >  "checksum": 
> > "06880edebbf24c4000da4d45d26aa97ddc2a6ad1ae3e4365c755fdb5a1ad481a",
> > "source": "http://redacted/spark_server.war";
> >  }
> >  },
> >  "mysql_root_password": {
> >  "_default": "mysql_root"
> >  },
> >  "mysql_debian_password": {
> >  "_default": "mysql_debian"
> >  },
> >  "deploy_to": "/srv/spark_server",
> >  "owner": "nobody"
> > }
> > 
> > These are the cookbooks I have installed:
> > 
> > apache2 0.99.4
> > application 0.99.11
> > apt 1.1.2
> > build-essential 1.0.0
> > chef-client 0.99.5
> > gunicorn 1.0.0
> > java 1.1.0
> > jpackage 0.10.0
> > mysql 1.0.6
> > openssl 1.0.0
> > passenger_apache2 0.99.0
> > php 1.0.0
> > python 1.0.2
> > runit 0.14.2
> > tomcat 0.10.3
> > unicorn 1.0.0
> > xml 1.0.0
> > 
> > 
> > So at this point:
> > I have a node, with Tomcat installed. But, I have 
> > /srv/spark_sever/releases/<sha256sum>.war plus a shared/logs, 
> > shared/pids,shared/system directories which are empty. 
> > /etc/tomcat6/Catalina/localhost/ROOT.xml points to 
> > /srv/spark_server/shared/AppName.xml, which does not exist.
> > /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps is empty (ROOT was deleted by the java_webapp 
> > recipe…), so there’s nothing actually running.
> > 
> > So two things:
> > What happened to my context.xml file?
> > How can I deploy to a named context instead of the ROOT context?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > -Matt
> > 
> > 
> > From: Matthew Drobnak 
> > [mailto:
 
> >  
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 7:45 AM
> > To: 
> > 
 
> >  
> > (mailto:
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> > Subject: [chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Deploying .war files?
> > 
> > I appreciate everyone's input so far.
> > 
> > 
> > Seth, I totally missed the application cookbook. I'll look into that and 
> > hopefully can get at least 1 piece running with Chef!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I love the premise, but all of the configuration management systems seem 
> > to have a bit of a steep climb before it becomes easy and powerful. :)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks again.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -Matt
> > 
> > 
> > On Jun 21, 2011, at 12:10 AM, Seth Chisamore wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > The java_webapp recipe in the application cookbook [0][1] was created 
> > > to accomplish just this task!
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > The Java Quick Start [1] has a full working example of using this 
> > > recipe to deploy a Java webapp, including setting up an environment 
> > > specific context.xml with database connection information.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Seth
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Opscode, Inc.
> > > Seth Chisamore, Senior Technical Evangelist
> > > IRC, Skype, Twitter, Github: schisamo
> > > 
> > > 
> > > [0] http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/application
> > > 
> > > [1] 
> > > https://github.com/opscode/cookbooks/blob/master/application/README.md
> > > 
> > > 
> > > [2] http://help.opscode.com/kb/otherhelp/build-a-java-web-stack
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Ken Mazaika 
> > > <
 
> > >  
> > > (mailto:
 )>
> > >  wrote:
> > > could you use something like capistrano for java?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Edward Sargisson 
> > > <
 
> > >  
> > > (mailto:
 )>
> > >  wrote:
> > > I need to do the same thing but haven't written it yet. Here's my plan
> > > - hopefully others can critique.
> > > 
> > > Firstly, you don't want to stop tomcat. Chef runs every 20 minutes or
> > > so (or whenever you set it for) so it would stop your server every 20
> > > minutes. Instead, you should work out if the file on your file server
> > > has changed and then do the update. In my case, my build artifacts
> > > have a build id. I plan to store the desired build id in a data bag *.
> > > The deployed data bag goes into the node data. Then, on the chef run
> > > it can compare and then run the update if required.
> > > 
> > > When you do the update you don't need to stop tomcat. Instead you
> > > download the WAR to a temp directory then go to the webapps dir and
> > > delete the directory for your webapp as well as the old WAR. Then you
> > > copy the WAR in. (You can't download directly because then Tomcat
> > > un-jars it before it's downloaded). Tomcat then un-jars it and starts
> > > it up for you.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Edward
> > > 
> > > * Amusingly, I forgot the name for data bag and my mind came up with
> > > drop bag. Once a trail runner, always a trail runner... :-)
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 8:25 PM, 
> > > <
 
> > >  
> > > (mailto:
 )>
> > >  wrote:
> > > > Hi everyone,
> > > > I'm fairly new to Chef. I downloaded and deployed the tomcat cookbook 
> > > > to a
> > > > node, and now I'm trying to add a recipe? or another cookbook, I'm 
> > > > not sure
> > > > really...to deploy our web app that should run on Tomcat.
> > > > 
> > > > I basically want the node to stop tomcat, delete everything in the 
> > > > webapps
> > > > directory, and scp a file to the right spot..then start tomcat.
> > > > 
> > > > I looked briefly at the deploy resource, but that's from a version 
> > > > control
> > > > system...we don't keep builds in version control, only the 
> > > > source..the binary
> > > > builds are on a server, so I don't think that's what I want.
> > > > 
> > > > If anyone can point me in the right direction to get this going, that 
> > > > would be
> > > > greatly appreciated.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks.
> > > > 
> > > > -Matt
> 
> 
> 
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