sinopia cookbook

Sinopia project : https://github.com/rlidwka/sinopia/

Sinopia is a private/caching npm repository server.

It allows you to have a local npm registry with zero configuration. You don't have to install and replicate an entire CouchDB database. Sinopia keeps its own small database and, if a package doesn't exist there, it asks npmjs.org for it keeping only those packages you use.

Requirements

• Chef >= 11
• Currently only tested with chef 11.10 on Ubuntu 12.04.
• Sinopia Cookbook heavily depends on nodejs and node community cookbooks.

Usage

Add recipe[sinopia] to the node runlist.

Default recipe with no other options will :

• Configure sinopia folders (in /etc, /var & /var/log)
• Install node + npm from the official repo at the latest version
• Create a passwordless sinopia user who will run the service
• Install latest version of sinopia from npmjs.org
• Configure log rotation to 30d
• Setup and start sinopia service (based on upstart for now)

Defaults

• Sinopia will bind to 127.0.0.1:4873, so you probably need to setup a web frontend.
• Access to the npm service is allowed to everyone.
• All desired packages are cached from https://registry.npmjs.org/
• A single npm account is provisionned to publish private packages with :
• login : admin
• passw : admin

Attributes

Every single Sinopia configuration item can be managed from node attributes. Default values are specified each time.

System configuration

• node['sinopia']['user'] : (sinopia) default user running sinopia
• node['sinopia']['confdir'] : (/etc/sinopia) config.yaml file location
• node['sinopia']['datadir'] : (/var/lib/sinopia) Sinopia cache & private stores location
• node['sinopia']['logdir'] : (/var/log/sinopia) sinopia.log file location
• node['sinopia']['logdays'] : (30) log retention policy, Integer days
• node['sinopia']['loglevel'] : (warn) log level, trace | debug | info | http | warn | error | fatal

Sinopia global conf

• node['sinopia']['version'] : (nil) Sinopia npm package version, use nil for latest
• node['sinopia']['admin']['pass'] : (admin) Sinopia admin account clear password
• node['sinopia']['public_url'] : Sinopia rewrite url, url prefix for provided links
• node['sinopia']['timeout'] : (nil) Cached repo timeout in ms, software default is 30000 ms
• node['sinopia']['maxage'] : (nil) Sinopia metadata cache max age in sec, software defaut is 120s
• node['sinopia']['max_body_size'] : (nil) Maximum size of uploaded json document, software default is 1mb

Users and rights

No users are created by default.

• You can set user list with a hash under default['sinopia']['users'], you need to specify a password for each user
• You can give admin right to a specific user with user['admin'] = true hash

Example:

node['sinopia']['users']['bob']['pass'] = 'incredible'
node['sinopia']['users']['bob']['admin'] = true

node['sinopia']['users']['andy']['pass'] = 'toys'
node['sinopia']['users']['andy']['admin'] = true

node['sinopia']['users']['woody']['pass'] = 'buzz'

NPM Registry

You can store a list of available npm repositories in node['sinopia']['repos'] following {'name' => 'url'} syntax.

Default hash is loaded with official npmjs repo : default['sinopia']['repos'] = {'npmjs' => 'https://registry.npmjs.org/'}

Example :

node['sinopia']['repos'] = {
  'npmjs' => 'https://registry.npmjs.org/', # official npmjs repo
  'myrepo' => 'https://myrepo.local/',
  'other' => 'https://third-party-repo.com'
}

node['sinopia']['mainrepo'] : (npmjs) Caching repository name selected from available repos list

Filters

• You can define access & publish filters based on package name under default['sinopia']['filters']
• Filter format is an Array with one Hash for one rule
• Wildcard is accepted in the filter name rule
• Access can be provided to :

• Default (all)
• Specified available users : ['user1', 'user2']
• admin account + all admin user : '@admins'

• publish can be provided to :

• Default (admin account only)
• Specified available users + admin : ['user1', 'user2']
• admin account + all admin user : '@admins'

• Storage value is the name of the folder where filtered packages will be set.

Example :

node['sinopia']['filters'] = [
  {
    'name' => 'private-*',
    'storage' => 'private-repo'
  },
  {
    'name' => 'admin-*',
    'access' => ['andy', 'woody']
  },
  {
    'name' => 'test-*',
    'access' => '@admins'
  }
]

Logging

This cookbook is reusing specific logging format of Sinopia :

type: file | stdout | stderr
level: trace | debug | info | http (default) | warn | error | fatal

{type: 'file', path: 'sinopia.log', level: 'debug'},

parameters for stdout and stderr: format: json | pretty
{type: 'stdout', format: 'pretty', level: 'debug'}

You can add as much logger as you want (including '{}') in default['sinopia']['logs'] Array

Default value is :

node['sinopia']['logs'] = [
  "{type: file, path: '/var/log/sinopia/sinopia.log', level: warn}"
]

Proxy

See attributes/default.rb to view how to configure node['sinopia']['use_proxy'] and node['sinopia']['proxy'].

NPM

See attributes/default.rb to view Node & npm install options (version, source/package, ...)

Recipes

sinopia::default recipe includes :

• sinopia::users : creates users
• sinopia::nodejs : install node & npm
• sinopia::sinopia : install sinopia, directories, conf and start service

Testing

Sinopia cookbook is bundled with a Vagrantfile. If you have virtualbox and vagrant ready, just fire a vagrant up and this will setup a box running Sinopia and listening 0.0.0.0:4873. Port 4873 is forwaded to your 127.0.0.1:4873 for test purposes.

Author

Author:: Barthelemy Vessemont (bvessemont@gmail.com)