Description

Install the Cloud Foundry DEA (Droplet Execution Agent), a mandatory component of a Cloud Foundry installation.

NOTE: for the DEA to be useful at all, you need to also install one or more runtimes. Currently supported runtimes are:

• cloudfoundry-ruby-runtime

Requirements

Chef

This cookbook is fully supported on Chef 10.x starting with 10.14.x, as well as Chef 11.

NOTE: at this time the other cookbooks for runtimes are not officially supported on Chef 11; testing is in progress. If you do try running them on Chef 11, please make sure to file a GitHub issue for any problem you may find.

Tested on:

• Chef 10.14.4
• Chef 11.4.0

Platform

• Ubuntu

Tested on:

• Ubuntu 10.04
• Ubuntu 12.04

Cookbooks

• cloudfoundry
• rbenv

Attributes

• node['cloudfoundry_dea']['pid_file'] - Where to write the DEA's pid file. Defaults to File.join(node['cloudfoundry']['pid_dir'], "dea.pid").
• node['cloudfoundry_dea']['log_file'] - Where to write the DEA's logs. Defaults to File.join(node['cloudfoundry']['log_dir'], "dea.log").
• node['cloudfoundry_dea']['base_dir'] - TODO (trotter): Find out what is stored here. Defaults to /var/vcap/data/dea".
• node['cloudfoundry_dea']['filter_port'] - TODO (trotter): Find out what this does. Defaults to 12345.
• node['cloudfoundry_dea']['heartbeat'] - Interval (in seconds) between heartbeats sent to the Health Manager. Defaults to 10.
• node['cloudfoundry_dea']['advertise'] - Interval (in seconds) for sending advertisments of available resources. Defaults to 5.
• node['cloudfoundry_dea']['log_level'] - Log level for the DEA. Defaults to info".
• node['cloudfoundry_dea']['max_memory'] - The maximum amount of memory this DEA is allowed to allocate across all its applications. Defaults to 4096.
• node['cloudfoundry_dea']['secure_env'] - TODO (trotter): Find out what this does. Defaults to false.
• node['cloudfoundry_dea']['multi_tenant'] - Allow the DEA to manage more than one application. Defaults to true.

Usage

The default recipe will install the CloudFoundry DEA on the target node along with the necessary configuration files and init scripts to run it. Simply add it to your run list:

run_list "recipe[cloudfoundry-dea]"

To also install support for ruby apps:

run_list "recipe[cloudfoundry-dea]", "recipe[cloudfoundry-ruby-runtime]"

License and Author

• Author:: Andrea Campi ([email protected])

• Author:: Trotter Cashion ([email protected])

• Copyright:: 2012-2013 ZephirWorks

• Copyright:: 2012 Trotter Cashion

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.