[chef] Re: Re: Re: Setting up Atlassian Suite via Chef

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Friday, February 17, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Torben Knerr wrote:

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> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Bryan McLellan 
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> > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:01 AM, Torben Knerr 
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> > > has anyone tried to set up the whole Atlassian Suite via Chef? I know 
> > > there
> > > is a JIRA cookbook, but I would need to set up Bamboo, Fisheye, Crowd, 
> > > etc.
> > > as well. And git or SVN as well. And everything nicely configured. :-)
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> > I wrote these internally at Opscode about a year ago, but they only go
> > as far as you would expect. You've still got to load up a web browser
> > for all the configuration. Going any further would be a feat of
> > engineering and unfortunately probably not stable between upstream
> > releases.
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> > Bryan
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> Yeah, that's what I expected. I could imagine to mechanize these steps, but 
> not sure if it would be worth the effort given that the webui changes quite 
> often between atlassian versions... 
> Btw: so these are the same cookbooks that Bryan Brandau refers to?
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> Cheers,
> Torben

Having a mix of Chef and backups isn't necessarily a bad thing when you run 
into tricky applications like this. I recently set up Jenkins so that Chef 
would install the software and dependencies, install plugins, and install the 
libraries and such we needed to run the builds. For the actual Jenkins 
config, I didn't have the time to reverse engineer the job XML files and 
write an LWRP to generate them, so I decided to just back up the data to S3. 
It worked pretty well when I tested rebuild/restore. It does require one 
extra step beyond just running Chef, but I restore the build history when I 
do this, so I do get some value out of it.

I wouldn't be happy with this if this was for my revenue generating 
infrastructure, but for one-offs I'm primarily automating to make DR work 
smoothly so it's an acceptable trade off.




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Dan DeLeo