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released Apr 10th 2013

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erwbgy/activemq — version 0.5.0 Apr 10th 2013

puppet-activemq

Puppet module to install Apache ActiveMQ and run instances as Runit services under one or more users.

The recommended usage is to place the configuration in hiera and just:

include activemq

Example hiera config:

activemq::config:
  hostname: 'localhost'

activemq::config_file: 'xbean:conf/activemq.xml'

activemq::cpu_affinity: '0,1'

activemq::files:
  conf/activemq.xml:
    mode:     '0440'
    source:   'puppet:///files/activemq/myapp/activemq.xml'

activemq::filestore: 'puppet:///files/activemq'

activemq::templates:
  conf/activemq-users.xml:
    mode:     '0440'
    template: '/var/lib/puppet/files/activemq/myapp/activemq-users.xml.erb'

activemq::group:     'activemq'

activemq::java_home: '/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_09'

activemq::java_opts: '-Xms1536m -Xmx1536m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m'

activemq::jolokia_version: '1.1.1'

activemq::version:   '5.8.0'

activemq::instances:
  activemq1:
    basedir:      '/apps/activemq1'
    config:
      hostname:   %{ipaddress_eth0_1}
    logdir:       '/apps/activemq1/logs'
    jolokia:         'true'
    jolokia_address: %{ipaddress_eth0_1}
    jolokia_port:    '8778'
  activemq2:
    basedir:      '/apps/activemq2'
    logdir:       '/apps/activemq2/logs'

activemq parameters

basedir: The base installation directory. Default: '/opt/activemq'

config: A hash of additional configuration variables that will be set when templates are processed.

config_file: The configuration file to use. Default: 'xbean:conf/activemq.xml'

cpu_affinity: Enable CPU affinity to be set to only run processes on specific CPU cores - for example '0,1' to only run processes on the first two cores.

files: A hash of configuration files to install - see below

filestore: The Puppet filestore location where the ActiveMQ tarball and Jolokia agent jar file are downloaded from. Default: 'puppet:///files/activemq'

group: The user''s primary group. Default: 'activemq',

java_home: The base directory of the JDK installation to be used. Default: '/usr/java/latest',

java_opts: Additional java command-line options to pass to the startup script

jolokia: Whether or not to install the jolokia war file and configure a separate service to run it. Default: false

jolokia_address: The address that the jolokia HTTP service listens on. Default: 'localhost'

jolokia_cron: Whether or not to install cron jobs to run the Jolokia JMX monitoring scripts every minute writing to local log files. Default: 'true'

jolokia_port: The port that the jolokia HTTP service listens on. Default: '8778'

logdir: The base log directory. Default: '/var/logs/activemq'

min_mem: The minimum heap size allocated by the JVM. Default: 1024m

max_mem: The maximum heap size allocated by the JVM. Default: 2048m

mode: The permissions to create files with (eg. 0444).

templates: A hash of configuration templates to process and install - see below

ulimit_nofile: The maximum number of open file descriptors the java process is allowed. Default is '$(ulimit -H -n)' which sets the value to the hard limit in /etc/security/limits.conf (or equivalent) for the user.

version: The version of the product to install (eg. 5.8.0). Required.

workspace: A temporary directory to unpack install tarballs into. Default: '/root/activemq'

activemq::instance parameters

title: The user the ActiveMQ instance runs as

Plus all of the parameters specified in 'activemq parameters' above

Config files and templates

Files or templates for each of the ActiveMQ instances can be delivered via Puppet. The former are delivered as-is while the latter are processed as ERB templates before being delivered.

For example configuration could be delivered using for instances running as the activemq1 and activemq2 users with:

activemq::config:
  hostname: 'localhost'

activemq::files:
  conf/activemq-users.xml:
    source: 'puppet:///files/activemq/dev/activemq-users.xml'
  
activemq:
  activemq1:
    templates:
      conf/activemq.xml:
        template: '/etc/puppet/templates/activemq/dev1/activemq.xml.erb'
  activemq2:
    templates:
      conf/activemq.xml:
        template: '/etc/puppet/templates/activemq/dev2/activemq.xml.erb'

Values set at the activemq level as set for all instances so both the activemq1 and activemq2 instance would get the same activemq-users.xml file. Each instance would get their own activemq.xml file based on the template specified with instance variables (like basedir and logdir) and config variables (like hostname above) substituted.

For example:

<broker ... dataDirectory="<%= @basedir %>/data" persistent="false" ...
...
<transportConnectors>
  <transportConnector name="nio" uri="nio://<%= @config['hostname'] %>:61618"/>
</transportConnectors>
...

All files and templates are relative to the product installation. For example if the product installation is '/opt/activemq/apache-activemq-5.8.0' then the full path to the 'activemq-users.xml' file would be '/opt/activemq/apache-activemq-5.8.0/conf/activemq-users.xml'.

Note that the path specified by the 'template' parameter is on the Puppet master.

Product zip files

Place the product zip files (eg. 'apache-activemq-5.8.0.tar.gz') under a 'activemq' directory of the 'files' file store. For example if /etc/puppet/fileserver.conf has:

[files]
path /var/lib/puppet/files

then put the zip files in /var/lib/puppet/files/activemq. Any files specified with the 'files' parameter can also be placed in this directory, as can the Jolokia agent jar file.

This location can be changed by setting the 'filestore' parameter.

Monitoring

The jolokia parameters enable JMX statistics to be queried over HTTP - for example:

$ curl http://localhost:8778/jolokia/read/java.lang:type=Memory/HeapMemoryUsage
{"timestamp":1363883323,"status":200,"request":{"mbean":"java.lang:type=Memory"
," attribute":"HeapMemoryUsage","type":"read"},"value":{"max":1908932608,"commi
tted":1029046272,"init":1073741824,"used":155889168}}

To limit what what can be accessed a jolokia-access.xml can be included in the war file. This is what I do to ensure read-only access:

$ cd /var/lib/puppet/files/activemq
$ wget http://labs.consol.de/maven/repository/org/jolokia/jolokia-jvm/1.1.1/jolokia-jvm-1.1.1-agent.jar
$ vim jolokia-access.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<restrict>
  <commands>
    <command>read</command>
    <command>list</command>
    <command>version</command>
    <command>search</command>
  </commands>
  <http>
    <method>get</method>
    <method>post</method>
  </http>
</restrict>
$ zip -u jolokia-jvm-1.1.1-agent.jar jolokia-access.xml

To make the ActiveMQ JMX MBeans available it is not necessary to create a JMX connector (and not recommended either) but JMX must be enabled - for example:

<broker ... useJmx="true" ...>
  ...
  <managementContext>
    <managementContext createConnector="false"/>
  </managementContext>
  ...
</broker>

Note that the elements inside broker must be in alphabetical order - for example managementContext must be after destinationPolicy but before systemUsage.

If jolokia support is enabled then connection and queue monitoring scripts are run from cron every minute writing to local log files.

Support

License: Apache License, Version 2.0

GitHub URL: https://github.com/erwbgy/puppet-activemq