Alfresco chef cookbook

This cookbook install and configure Alfresco. It is heavily based on the excellent work of loftuxab.

Supported Platforms

• Ubuntu 14.04
• Debian 7

Attributes

There is lot of attributes you can configure, please feel free to look into attributes/default.rb.

The most important one are :

• default['alfresco']['version'] : set the alfresco version (default : 5.0.c)
• default['alfresco']['database_type'] : set the database type (default : mysql)
• default['alfresco']['domain_name'] : set the default reverse domain name (default : alfresco.dev)

If you have an internal HTTP repository with your own alfresco, share or solr war :

• default['alfresco']['alfresco_link'] = 'http://YOUR_REPOSITORY/alfresco.war'
• default['alfresco']['share_link'] = 'http://YOUR_REPOSITORY/share.war'
• default['alfresco']['solr_link'] = 'http://YOUR_REPOSITORY/solr.war'

Usage

Include alfresco in your node's run_list:

{
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[alfresco::database]",
    "recipe[alfresco::alfresco]",
    "recipe[alfresco::share]",
    "recipe[alfresco::solr]",
    "recipe[alfresco::reverse]"
  ]
}

Evaluation/Development

Prerequisite

• chefdk - chef developers only (https://downloads.chef.io/chef-dk/)
• vagrant (https://www.vagrantup.com/)
• vagrant plugins :
  • vagrant-cachier : vagrant plugin install vagrant-cachier
  • vagrant-omnibus : vagrant plugin install vagrant-omnibus
  • vagrant-hostmanager : vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostmanager
  • vagrant-berkshelf : vagrant plugin install vagrant-berkshelf
• virtualbox (https://www.virtualbox.org/)
• At least 2Go of RAM for the VM (This is java after all :D)

Provisionning

Evaluation

After installing all the prerequisite, change the BOX_URL and BOX_NAME attributes in Vagrantfile then :

git clone https://github.com/sitle/chef-alfresco.git
cd chef-alfresco
vagrant up

Note : you need to wait a few minutes after provisionning is done to let tomcat start Alfresco (2Min). You can, then, access to it (http://alfresco.dev - admin/admin).

Development

After installing all the prerequisite, change the box_url attribute in .kitchen.yml then :

git clone https://github.com/sitle/chef-alfresco.git
cd chef-alfresco
kitchen converge default

Note : you need to wait a few minutes after provisionning is done to let tomcat start Alfresco (2Min). You can, then, access to it (http://alfresco.dev - admin/admin).

Known issue

• I don't know why but you need to delete the solr4.zip in your vagrant-cachier (USER_HOME/vagrant.d/cache/SYSTEME/chef/solr4.zip) the second time you spin up your VM.
• solr log still have access denied.

Todo

• Alfresco plugin LWRP
• Clustering (with search)
• HTTPS
• All critical attributes in data bag
• RedHat like install

License and Authors

Copyright 2015 Léonard TAVAE

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

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Authors :

• Léonard TAVAE (leonard.tavae@informatique.gov.pf)