Chef cookbook for the bosh agent

Installs & runs the bosh agent and all its dependencies.

Represents a portable, reusable reimplementation of the bosh stemcell_builder for the bosh_agent stages.

Development

To clone the source repository and run the integration tests:

$ git clone git@github.com:drnic/chef-bosh_agent.git bosh_agent
$ cd bosh_agent
$ bundle
$ kitchen converge
$ kitchen verify

You can now SSH into the vagrant VM and test that the agent is running:

$ kitchen login
# ps ax
...
49276 /var/vcap/bosh/bin/ruby /var/vcap/bosh/bin/bosh_agent -c -P microcloud -I vsphere -n https://vcap:vcap@0.0.0.0:6969
49480 /var/vcap/bosh/bin/monit -I -c /var/vcap/bosh/etc/monitrc

The bosh agent and the monit that it controls are both running.

You can interact with the agent using the agent_client library:

# sudo su -

# gem install pry
# gem install agent_client --pre --source https://s3.amazonaws.com/bosh-jenkins-gems/
# pry
> require 'agent_client'
> api = Bosh::Agent::Client.create('https://localhost:6969', "user" => "vcap", "password" => "vcap")
> api.ping
"pong"
> api.state
=> {"deployment"=>"",
 "job"=>"",
 "index"=>"",
 "networks"=>{},
 "resource_pool"=>{},
 "packages"=>{},
 "persistent_disk"=>{},
 "configuration_hash"=>{},
 "properties"=>{},
 "agent_id"=>"micro",
 "vm"=>nil,
 "job_state"=>"running",
 "bosh_protocol"=>"1",
 "ntp"=>{"message"=>"file missing"}}

These gems are also installed by adding the bosh_agent::client recipe to your run list.

Release

There is a helpful rake task to share new cookbook versions.

$ rake share[1.2.3]
$ rake 'share[1.2.3]' # zsh

This will update the metadata.rb version, check the cookbook, upload the cookbook, tag the git repo. Much of this functionality comes from knife-community plugin.