[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: anyone working on a jboss cookbook?

[Bryan Berry < >]

wow, great to see such a big response. I have _no_ prior experience w/ jboss but have a lot w/ tomcat.

I may ping you happy respondents, esp. Sascha and Bryan

My employer intends to have 30+ jboss instances (currently have 10) so there is absolutely no way I am not going to automate it w/ chef

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Bryan Brandau < "> > wrote:

We have a pretty straight forward JBoss recipe that implements 5.1 GA.  We're still working on getting approvals to release any cookbooks we've written or modified.  

Since I can't share it at this time, I'd be happy to answer any questions you have.  

The current recipe we have sets up some basic attributes:

version, jboss user/group, install location, log location, bind host, server name.

There are three templates for setting up /etc/default/jboss, the init.d script and some environment variables.  We run Ubuntu so the init.d script is a modifed version of the default redhat one. 

The recipe is pretty straight forward with setting up the user/group for jboss, installing jboss if it doesn't exist, configures the service and places the template in place.

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Burkholder, Peter < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

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On Oct 17, 2011, at 8:47 AM, Sascha Bates wrote:

> Hi Bryan, I have been implementing ATG on JBoss for  client for a few months now and have been taking notes for a cookbook.  I 've started working on it, although I haven't figured out what level of detail I'm going to use on some of the complex settings, like slimming and port management.  My client is not using config management and so I was using this as an excercise to keep in practice with Chef.  Ironically, I've just signed an actual client with another client to evaluate and then implement something similar for them on Puppet, which is kinda cool.  I would welcome collaboration.  My github page is here: https://github.com/sbates
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> I am not sure why no one has published a cookbook because I know at least one person has emailed me privately when I've had questions and they have internal jboss cookbooks.  I think that possibly the complexity is not entirely apparent when you first start thinking about it and that it might be difficult to scrub client data from an implementation or that it might be hard to "do it right" enough to want to share or that employers may not allow it.  Those are my theories on why there is no cookbook for JBoss.

Hmm.  We're just getting started with Chef and I just sort of assumed there would be a JBoss cookbook out there.  Is it because the platform implementations vary too widely for someone to make the effort for a platform-agnostic cookbook?

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