Deprecation warning

This recipe is no longer mantained and may not work on recent versions of Crowd. We suggest you to look at https://github.com/afklm/crowd instead.

Description

Installs/Configures Atlassian Crowd server.

Requirements

Platforms

• CentOS 6
• RHEL 6
• Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10, 13.04

Chef

• The cookbook requires Chef 11 due to ark usage

Databases

• HSQLDB (not recommended for production usage)
• MySQL
• Postgres
• Percona

Cookbooks

Required Opscode Cookbooks

• apache2 (if using Apache 2 proxy)
• ark
• database
• java
• mysql (if using MySQL database)
• postgresql (if using Postgres database)

Third-Party Cookbooks

• percona (if using Percona database)

Attributes

These attributes are under the node['crowd'] namespace.

Attribute	Description	Type	Default
checksum	SHA256 checksum for Crowd install	String	auto-detected (see attributes/default.rb)
home_path	home data directory for Crowd user	String	/var/atlassian/application-data/crowd
install_path	location to install Crowd	String	/opt/atlassian
install_type	Crowd install type - "standalone" only for now	String	standalone
url_base	URL base for Crowd install	String	http://www.atlassian.com/software/crowd/downloads/binary/atlassian-crowd
url	URL for Crowd install	String	auto-detected (see attributes/default.rb)
user	user to run Crowd	String	crowd
version	Crowd version to install	String	2.7.2

Crowd Database Attributes

All of these node['crowd']['database'] attributes are overridden by crowd/crowd encrypted data bag (Hosted Chef) or data bag (Chef Solo), if it exists

Attribute	Description	Type	Default
host	FQDN or "localhost" (localhost automatically installs ['database']['type'] server)	String	localhost
name	Crowd database name	String	crowd
password	Crowd database user password	String	changeit
port	Crowd database port	Fixnum	3306
testInterval	Crowd database pool idle test interval in minutes	Fixnum	2
type	Crowd database type - "hsqldb" (not recommended), "mysql", "percona" or "postgresql"	String	mysql
user	Crowd database user	String	crowd

Crowd JVM Attributes

These attributes are under the node['crowd']['jvm'] namespace.

Attribute	Description	Type	Default
minimum_memory	JVM minimum memory	String	512m
maximum_memory	JVM maximum memory	String	768m
maximum_permgen	JVM maximum PermGen memory	String	256m
java_opts	additional JAVA_OPTS to be passed to Crowd JVM during startup	String	""
support_args	additional JAVA_OPTS recommended by Atlassian support for Crowd JVM during startup	String	""

Crowd Tomcat Attributes

These attributes are under the node['crowd']['tomcat'] namespace.

Any node['crowd']['tomcat']['key*'] attributes are overridden by crowd/crowd encrypted data bag (Hosted Chef) or data bag (Chef Solo), if it exists

Attribute	Description	Type	Default
keyAlias	Tomcat SSL keystore alias	String	tomcat
keystoreFile	Tomcat SSL keystore file - will automatically generate self-signed keystore file if left as default	String	#{node['crowd']['home_path']}/.keystore
keystorePass	Tomcat SSL keystore passphrase	String	changeit
port	Tomcat HTTP port	Fixnum	8095
ssl_port	Tomcat HTTPS port	Fixnum	8443
context	Tomcat context	String	""

Recipes

• recipe[crowd] Installs Atlassian Crowd with built-in Tomcat and Apache 2 proxy
• recipe[crowd::apache2] Installs/configures Apache 2 proxy for Crowd (ports 80/443)
• recipe[crowd::configuration] Configures Crowd's settings
• recipe[crowd::database] Installs/configures MySQL/Percona/Postgres server, database, and user for Crowd
• recipe[crowd::linux_standalone] Installs/configures Crowd via Linux standalone archive
• recipe[crowd::service_init] Installs/configures Crowd init service
• recipe[crowd::tomcat_configuration] Configures Crowd's built-in Tomcat

Contributing

Please use standard Github issues/pull requests.

License and Contributors

Please see license information in: LICENSE

• Sergio Leone sergio.leone@qvc.com