[chef] setting up a continuous integration system with Chef... (not going so well so far)

[phil swenson < >]

I posted about this yesterday, I’m going to post again - but this time with links to code.

Here is the code:

https://github.com/pswenson/JenkinsChefRecipe

My goal is to be able to install java, oracle DB, jenkins server, install jenkins slaves, create jobs, update jobs with Chef Solo on a system of 15 servers.  1 server will be the jenkins master and the other 14 will be slaves.

I’m starting my recipe with java and jenkins installs.

I’m guessing I’m doing several things wrong:

I ended up configuring the java attributes in nodes/redstone.json as I couldn’t get them to work inside my recipe.  It seems to me it would be better to do this in my recipe as this will not be node specific, I want it global.

Here is what happens with the current code (even with include_recipe "java::default”

as suggested by Christopher Armstrong)

Any help, suggestions, critiques would be greatly appreciated.  Links to real-life projects would be great, almost everything I see is completely trivial or just doc on attributes for recipes.  I’d love to see a real life project I could download and execute.  

I have to get this going soon or my boss will pull the plug :(  

Thanks!

phil

here is the output for running the current code:

:~/dev/chef/myfirstcookbook (master)$ knife solo cook

WARNING: solo.rb found, but since knife-solo v0.3.0 it is not used any more

WARNING: Please read the upgrade instructions: https://github.com/matschaffer/knife-solo/wiki/Upgrading-to-0.3.0

Running Chef on redstone...

Checking Chef version...

Installing Berkshelf cookbooks to '/Users/philswenson/.berkshelf/knife-solo/35c024dd80a9ab482eadf86b98a86fb90c9521d7'...

Using myfirstcookbook (0.1.0)

Using jenkins (2.0.2)

Using git (3.1.0)

Using java (1.20.0)

Using apt (2.3.8)

Using runit (1.5.10)

Using build-essential (2.0.0)

Using yum (3.1.4)

Using yum-epel (0.3.4)

Using dmg (2.2.0)

Using windows (1.30.0)

Using chef_handler (1.1.5)

Uploading the kitchen...

cannot delete non-empty directory: main

WARNING: Local role_path './roles' does not exist

WARNING: Local data_bag_path './data_bags' does not exist

WARNING: Local environment_path './environments' does not exist

Generating solo config...

Running Chef...

Starting Chef Client, version 11.10.4

[2014-03-14T19:07:47-04:00] WARN: unable to detect ip6address

Compiling Cookbooks...

HI PHIL HI PHIL

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

Recipe Compile Error in /root/chef-solo/cookbooks-3/main/recipes/default.rb

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

NoMethodError

-------------

undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass

Cookbook Trace:

---------------

  /root/chef-solo/cookbooks-2/java/recipes/oracle.rb:38:in `from_file'

  /root/chef-solo/cookbooks-2/java/recipes/default.rb:22:in `from_file'

  /root/chef-solo/cookbooks-3/main/recipes/default.rb:8:in `from_file'

Relevant File Content:

----------------------

/root/chef-solo/cookbooks-2/java/recipes/oracle.rb:

 31:

 32:  case node['java']['jdk_version'].to_s

 33:  when "6"

 34:    tarball_url = node['java']['jdk']['6'][arch]['url']

 35:    tarball_checksum = node['java']['jdk']['6'][arch]['checksum']

 36:    bin_cmds = node['java']['jdk']['6']['bin_cmds']

 37:  when "7"

 38>>   tarball_url = node['java']['jdk']['7'][arch]['url']

 39:    tarball_checksum = node['java']['jdk']['7'][arch]['checksum']

 40:    bin_cmds = node['java']['jdk']['7']['bin_cmds']

 41:  end

 42:

 43:  if tarball_url =~ /example.com/

 44:    Chef::Application.fatal!("You must change the download link to your private repository. You can no longer download java directly from http://download.oracle.com without a web broswer")

 45:  end

 46:

 47:  include_recipe "java::set_java_home"

Running handlers:

[2014-03-14T19:07:47-04:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers

Running handlers complete

[2014-03-14T19:07:47-04:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete

[2014-03-14T19:07:47-04:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out

Chef Client failed. 0 resources updated in 0.279135717 seconds

[2014-03-14T19:07:47-04:00] ERROR: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass

[2014-03-14T19:07:47-04:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::ChildConvergeError: Chef run process exited unsuccessfully (exit code 1)

ERROR: RuntimeError: chef-solo failed. See output above.

:~/dev/chef/myfirstcookbook (master)$