UCB Deployer

UCB Deployer is gem to automate Confluence and JIRA deployments to Tomcat.

Overview

Deployments done with UCB Deployer will follow the following structure.

The user performing the deployment should manually stop tomcat

sudo service tomcat6-jira stop

and then excecute the ucb_deploy command:

ucb_deploy APP=<jira|confluence> VERSION=<version>

The ucb_deploy command will then do the following:

  1. Display a user friendly maintenance page that should be picked up by Apache.
  2. Check out the application from SVN.
  3. Configure the application in preparation for the build.
  4. Build the application which results in a war file.
  5. Deploy the war file to tomcat.

The user doing the deployment will then have to manually start tomcat 

sudo service tomcat6-jira start

and confirm tomcat started. Once they have confirmed things are ok, they can then remove the maintenance file via the command:

ucb_deploy enable_web APP=<jira|confluence>

Woot!

Installation

gem install ucb_deployer

Assumptions

Tomcat Setup

It is assumed that JIRA and Confluence each have their own unique Tomcat instance. For more information on this setup, see Tomcat 6 Setup

Application User Account Setup

It is also assumed that a corresponding unix user has been created for both JIRA and Confluence: this is referred to as the application user. The Tomcat instance for JIRA/Confluence will run as this application user.

Release Management User

You should have some sort of release management user setup that can start/stop Tomcat for JIRA and Confluence (we use app_relmgt). This user should have Read/Write access to the Tomcat directories for JIRA and Confluence. Again, for more information on this setup see: Tomcat 6 Setup

General Configuration

Layout/Directories

The following directories and file need to be setup in the app_relmgt user's home directory:

$HOME/.ucb_deployer/config/
                       +
                       |-- jira/
                             +
                             |-- deploy.yml
                       |-- confluence/
                                +
                                |-- deploy.yml

$HOME/.ucb_deployer/build/
                     +
                     |-- jira/
                     |-- confluence/

Configuration Options

  • build_dir : directory where build will be performed
  • deploy_dir : directory to deploy the war file to
  • war_name : name to use for the war file
  • cas_server_url : url of CAS Server
  • cas_service_url : url to redirect to after CAS auth succeeds
  • data_dir : directory to be used by confluecne or jira for storing local data
  • svn_project_url : location of confluence/jira release in svn
  • maintenance_file_dir : location where maintenance file should be written to
Sample Configuration For JIRA

Assuming we had the above directories setup in ($HOME=/home/app_relmgt), the deploy.yml file for jira would look like so:

build_dir: /home/app_relmgt/.ucb_deployer/build
deploy_dir: /home/app_jira/tomcat6/webapps
war_name: ROOT
cas_server_url: http://cas-server.berkeley.edu
cas_service_url: https://wikihub.berkeley.edu
data_dir: /home/app_jira/app_data
svn_project_url: svn+ssh://[email protected]/istas/jira_archives/tags
maintenance_file_dir: /var/www/html/jira/

Confluence Configuration

Setup Container Jars

Before deploying confluence, you need to make sure the following jar files exist in $CATALINA_BASE/lib for Confluence's Tomcat instance:

  • postgresql-8.4-701.jdbc3.jar
  • javamail-1.3.2.jar
  • activation-1.0.2.jar

JIRA Configuration

Setup Container Jars

Before deploying JIRA, you need to make sure the following jar files exist in $CATALINA_BASE/lib for JIRA's Tomcat instance:

  • activation-1.0.2.jar
  • xapool-1.3.1.jar
  • ots-jts_1.0.jar
  • mail-1.4.1.jar
  • postgresql-8.4-701.jdbc3.jar
  • jta-1.0.1.jar
  • jotm-jrmp_stubs-1.4.3.jar
  • jotm-iiop_stubs-1.4.3.jar
  • log4j-1.2.7.jar
  • objectweb-datasource-1.4.3.jar
  • commons-logging-1.0.4.jar
  • carol-properties.jar
  • carol-1.5.2.jar
  • jonas_timer-1.4.3.jar
  • jotm-1.4.3.jar

Usage

# Either of these will deploy the appication
ucb_deploy APP=<confluence|jira> VERSION=x.x.x
ucb_deploy deploy APP=<confluence|jira> VERSION=x.x.x

For more options:

ucb_deploy -T