DEPRECATED!
Mistral is deprecated since StackStormv3.3.0 in favor of Orquesta, a self-grown StackStorm workflow Engine.

OpenStack Mistral chef cookbook

Sets up and configures Mistral Workflow Service on a Chef node.

Compatibility

Use version <0.2.3 of this cookbook with chef <12.4.0.

As of version 0.3.0, Mistral will be installed using Stackstorm's Packagecloud packages.

Supported Platforms

There are no restrictions for platforms, cookbook should support major debian, fedora and rhel platforms. Tested to work on ubuntu, debian and centos.

Cookbook dependencies

Cookbook depends on other cookbooks: apt, packagecloud, database, postgresql.

Attributes

Key	Type	Description	Default
['openstack-mistral']['etc_dir']	String	Specifies the configuration directory where mistral configuration files are placed.	'/opt/openstack/etc'
['openstack-mistral']['db_initialize']['enabled']	Boolean	If enabled, cookbook will try to create database for mistral.	false
['openstack-mistral']['db_initialize']['upgrade]	Boolean	If enabled, cookbook will try to upgrade database for mistral once.	false
['openstack-mistral']['db_initialize']['populate]	Boolean	If enabled, cookbook will try to populate database for mistral once.	false
['openstack-mistral']['db_initialize']['db_name]	String	Database name.	'mistral
['openstack-mistral']['db_initialize']['db_username]	String	Database user which own db_name database .	'mistral
['openstack-mistral']['db_initialize']['db_superuser]	String	User which create role and databases.	'postgres
['postgres]['db_initialize']['db_superuser_password]	String	Superuser password.	'ilikerandompasswords'
['openstack-mistral']['db_initialize']['allowed_hosts']	String	Hosts which will be allowed to access mistral database.	'localhost'
['openstack-mistral']['config']	Hash	Configurations to be overwritten in mistral.conf.	{}

Usage

Cookbook install st2mistral package, overwrite its configuration with node['openstack-mistral']['config'] attributes and start it up. st2mistral package also install a default mistral user and setup logging. Related services like: RabbitMQ are neither installed nor configured by this cookbook.

Include this cookbook from other cookbooks or directly from runlist:

include_recipe 'openstack-mistral::default'

In case db_initialize.enabled is provided, _database.rb recipe will try to install postgresql, create user mistral and create database mistral. Default this is set to false.

include_recipe 'openstack-mistral::_database'

Initial schema upgrade and populate of database can also be done once if upgrade or *populate are set.

Development

Setup development environment using ChefDK. This is to ensure development and testing infrastructure (TravisCI) are using the same Ruby and libraries.

License and Authors

License:: Apache 2.0

• Author:: StackStorm (info@stackstorm.com)
• Author:: Denis Baryshev (dennybaa@gmail.com)

Contributors

• Author:: Bao Nguyen (ngqbao@gmail.com)