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

[Haselwanter Edmund < >]

On 23.06.2011, at 17:21, Seth Chisamore wrote:

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

Thx! put some work into it ;-)

> 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! 

it has a proper license to do so ;-)

For the LWRP thing. I was missing this 
http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-1946 ;
Is there a proposed release date for 0.10.2 ? https://rubygems.org/gems/chef ;
is still 0.10.0

> Seth
> 
> -- 
> Opscode, Inc.
> Seth Chisamore, Senior Technical Evangelist
> IRC, Skype, Twitter, Github: schisamo
> 
> 
> 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:
 )
>>> 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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