[chef] Setting up jenkins slaves using chef

[Peter Hoellig < >]

Hello and thanks in advance,

Is there any setup that must be done on the jenkins master before the jenkins chef cookbook can create a slave node?

I'm working with the Jenkins cookbook (0.6.3 from http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/jenkins) trying to setup a windows slave and having a bit of trouble. I was able to setup a Jenkins master on Ubuntu without issue and I'm getting errors creating the jenkins-slave.xml when running chef-client on the slave node. I've already verified that my DNS settings are correct and that I'm hitting the server. 

I've created a role on my chef server which contains the java:windows (this works and installs fine) and jenkins:node_windows recipes and overridden attributes as follows. 

{

    "java":

    {

        "jdk_version":"7",

        "windows":{"url":"http://pathToJavaInstaller"}

    },

    "jenkins":

    {

        "server":

        {

             "url":"http://pathToJenkinsMaster:8080"

}}}

Here is the relevant output that I'm seeing:

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 Error executing action `create` on resource 'template[C:/jenkins/jenkins-slave.xml]'

 ================================================================================

 

 

 Chef::Exceptions::FileNotFound

 ------------------------------

 Cookbook 'jenkins' (0.6.3) does not contain a file at any of these locations:

   templates/windows-6.1.7601/jenkins-slave.xml

   templates/windows/jenkins-slave.xml

   templates/default/jenkins-slave.xml

 

 This cookbook _does_ contain: ['apache_jenkins.erb','htpasswd.erb','jenkins.erb','nginx_jenkins.conf.erb','port_jenkins.erb','sv-hudson-slave-log-run.erb','sv-hudson-slave-run.erb']

 

 

 Resource Declaration:

 ---------------------

 # In c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/jenkins/recipes/node_windows.rb

 

  44: template "#{home}/jenkins-slave.xml" do

  45:   source "jenkins-slave.xml"

  46:   variables(:jenkins_home => home,

  47:             :jnlp_url => "#{url}/computer/#{node[:jenkins][:node][:name]}/slave-agent.jnlp")

  48: end

  49: 

 

 

 

 Compiled Resource:

 ------------------

 # Declared in c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/jenkins/recipes/node_windows.rb:44:in `from_file'

 

 template("C:/jenkins/jenkins-slave.xml") do

   provider Chef::Provider::Template

   action "create"

   retries 0

   retry_delay 2

   path "C:/jenkins/jenkins-slave.xml"

   backup 5

   source "jenkins-slave.xml"

   variables {:jenkins_home=>"C:/jenkins", :jnlp_url=>"http://pathToJenkinsMaster:8080/computer/nodeDNS/slave-agent.jnlp"}

   cookbook_name "jenkins"

   recipe_name "node_windows"

 end

 

 

 

 [2013-06-24T18:03:11+00:00] INFO: Running queued delayed notifications before re-raising exception

 [2013-06-24T18:03:11+00:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers

 [2013-06-24T18:03:11+00:00] FATAL: Saving node information to c:/chef/cache/failed-run-data.json

 [2013-06-24T18:03:11+00:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete

 [2013-06-24T18:03:11+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to c:/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out

 [2013-06-24T18:03:11+00:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::FileNotFound: template[C:/jenkins/jenkins-slave.xml] (jenkins::node_windows line 44) had an error: Chef::Exceptions::FileNotFound: Cookbook 'jenkins' (0.6.3) does not contain a file at any of these locations:

   templates/windows-6.1.7601/jenkins-slave.xml

   templates/windows/jenkins-slave.xml

   templates/default/jenkins-slave.xml

 

 This cookbook _does_ contain: ['apache_jenkins.erb','htpasswd.erb','jenkins.erb','nginx_jenkins.conf.erb','port_jenkins.erb','sv-hudson-slave-log-run.erb','sv-hudson-slave-run.erb']

Thanks!