Installing Marvel

[julien51]

Is there a recipe (that I couldn't find!) to install Marvel with chef as well?

[karmi]

Marvel is a regular plugin, so it should be straightforward to install it, just like any other plugin -- set the node attributes, data bag, etc. See e.g. the test Vagrantfile.

[spuder]

I am also looking for an example of how to install a plugin using a wrapper chef cookbook. Did you ever figure this out?

[spuder]

I figured it out

In your wrapper cookbook recipes/default.rb, include the plugins recipe

include_recipe 'java'
include_recipe 'elasticsearch::default'
include_recipe 'elasticsearch::proxy'
include_recipe 'elasticsearch::plugins'

In the customize.rb

normal[:java][:jdk_version] = '7'

normal[:elasticsearch][:version] = '1.4.4'
normal[:elasticsearch][:enabled] = true
normal[:elasticsearch][:cluster][:name] = 'example'

normal[:elasticsearch][:plugins] = {
  'karmi/elasticsearch-paramedic' => { 
    :url => 'https://github.com/karmi/elasticsearch-paramedic/archive/master.zip'
  }
}

[martinb3]

Hi there -- it sounds like you have resolved your issue, so I'm going to go ahead and close this. We've re-written the cookbook using libraries that expose resources and providers, so it should also be much easier to install plugins. Hope this helps!