rji-jboss_as

A Puppet module to manage the installation, configuration, and application deployments for JBoss Application Server 7. It is compatible with Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu.

• Project page: https://github.com/rji/puppet-jboss_as
• Puppet Forge: http://forge.puppetlabs.com/rji/jboss_as

Features

• Install and configure JBoss AS 7 on Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu; this has been tested on CentOS 6 and Ubuntu 12.04.
• Deploy and undeploy multiple Java application packages, using either hot or cold deployment methods.
• A starting point for Puppet/ERB templating to suit your environment.

Getting Started

rji-jboss_as was developed and tested using Puppet 2.7.x on CentOS 6.4 and Ubuntu 12.04.

• The node that JBoss AS is being installed on should already have a working Java installation. If not, check out the puppetlabs-java module to manage OpenJDK.
• Download the JBoss AS 7.1.1 tarball from jboss.org and place it in the files/ directory.
• A working knowledge of JBoss AS installation, configuration, and application deployments.
• A healthy background with Puppet/ERB templating. Because JBoss AS is a very powerful application server, it is not realistic to manage every aspect of its configuration here. A certain level of customization is expected for each environment.

Usage

Basic usage to install and configure JBoss AS, and deploy an archive named helloworld.war:

node 'app1.example.com' {
    include jboss_as
    jboss_as::deploy { 'helloworld.war': }
}

Installing and Configuring JBoss AS

To accept the default class parameters in manifests/init.pp, you can install and configure JBoss AS simply by including the class for a given node:

node 'app1.example.com' {
    include jboss_as
}

Otherwise, you can override the default parameters. All (current) parameters that can be specified are listed in the example below:

node 'app1.example.com' {
    class { 'jboss_as':
        jboss_dist     => 'jboss-as-7.1.1.Final.tar.gz',
        jboss_user     => 'jboss-as',
        jboss_group    => 'jboss-as',
        jboss_home     => '/usr/share/jboss-as',
        staging_dir    => '/tmp/puppet-staging/jboss_as',
        standalone_tpl => 'jboss_as/standalone.xml.erb'
    }
}

Deploying Applications

This module defines a new type, jboss_as::deploy. To accept the default parameters in manifests/deploy.pp, you can deploy an application by including the type for a given node and specifying the package to deploy. Note that the package must be located in this module's files/ directory.

node 'app1.example.com' {
    include jboss_as
    jboss_as::deploy { 'helloworld.war': }
}

You can override the default class parameters on a deployment-by-deployment basis:

node 'app1.example.com' {
    include jboss_as
    jboss_as::deploy { 'helloworld':
        pkg         => 'helloworld.war',
        is_deployed => true,
        hot_deploy  => false
    }
}

You can also use the jboss_as::deploy class to undeploy applications:

node 'app1.example.com' {
    include jboss_as
    jboss_as::deploy { 'helloworld.war':
          is_deployed => false
    }
}

Tests

The tests for this module were executed against Ruby 1.8.7. To download/install the required gems, run:

$ bundle install

There are several rspec-puppet tests that can be run with:

$ rake spec

And syntax checking can be performed with:

$ rake lint