Overview

This chef repository provides a cookbook and roles to deploy WebObjects applications on LINUX distros.

After adding the webobjects cookbook to your chef repo you can add roles to install and configure an Apache http server and the WebObjects application server.

Chef Setup

Typically you'd fork or clone this repository:

git clone git://github.com/rgauss/webobjects-chef-repo.git

upload to your chef server, then create nodes with the appropriate roles for deployment.

If unfamiliar with chef check out the quick start page.

You'll need to setup a .chef directory with your credentials and knife.rb file to connect to your chef server.

You can then create a data bag with settings unique to your app and set attributes on your chef nodes or roles that override the defaults.

Usage

See the webobjects cookbook for details on usage.

Roles

• webobjects_application_server - A WebObjects 5.4 application server (wotaskd and JavaMonitor).
• webobjects_http_server - An Apache 2 web server and builds a WebObjects adaptor.
• webobjects_compile_server - A server setup to compile WebObjects applications from source. Note that you must provide the Apple, Wonder, woproject.jar, and other third-party frameworks.

EC2 Deployment

If you're deploying on EC2 check out the EC2 Knife plugin which (after setting your AWS key and secret) can make deploying a standalone WebObjects server as easy as:

knife ec2 server create --region us-east-1 -Z us-east-1a -I ami-cf33fea6 -f t1.micro -G <YOUR_GROUPS> -i ~/.ec2/<YOUR_EC2_KEY_PAIR>.pem -S <YOUR_EC2_KEY_PAIR> --ssh-user ubuntu -r role[webobjects_http_server],role[webobjects_application_server]