hubot cookbook

Deploys and manages an instance of GitHub's Hubot.

Requirements

Platforms

• Debian/Ubuntu
• RHEL/CentOS/Scientific/Amazon/Oracle

Chef

• Chef 12.1+

Cookbooks

• nodejs
• git
• runit

Recipes

default

• Ensures that Node.js is installed and available using the
• nodejs cookbook.
• Ensures git is installed and available using the
• git cookbook.
• Ensures runit is installed and available using the
• runit cookbook.
• Creates a user and group to install and run the Hubot instance under.
• Installs the specified Hubot version from git.
• Renders instance-specific package.json, external-scripts.json, hubot-scripts.json, and
• hubot.conf files.
• Creates and enables a hubot runit service to run the Hubot instance under.
• The runit service reads the hubot.conf file and passes the contents onto
• the underlying hubot process as configuration.

Attributes

Attribute	Description	Type	Default
version	Hubot version to install.	String	2.11.0
scripts_version	Version of hubot-scripts (community collection of hubot scripts) to install.	String	2.5.16
install_dir	Directory the Hubot instance will be installed to.	String	/opt/hubot
user	The user to install and run the Hubot instance under.	String	hubot
group	The group to install and run the Hubot instance under.	String	hubot
name	The name of the robot in chat.	String	hubot
adapter	The Hubot adapter to use.	String	campfire
config	Hash of values that will be converted into environment variables and passed to the Hubot process.	Hash	Hash.new
dependencies	Hash in form dep_name => dep_version that will be rendered into Hubot instance's package.json. A common dep to set in this attribute is non-Campfire adapters.	Hash	Hash.new
hubot_scripts	Scripts to enable from the community collection of hubot scripts.	Array	Array.new
external_scripts	External scripts to enable.	Array	Array.new

Usage

Include recipe[hubot] in your run_list and override the defaults you want changed. See below for more details. Hubot instances are configured using environment variables passed to the Hubot process. These environment variables can be set using the node['hubot']['config'] attribute.

I highly recommend integrating this cookbook into your own infrastructure using the library/application cookbook pattern. You would start by creating a YOURCOMPANY-hubot cookbook with a proper metadata dependency on the hubot (this) cookbook. A concrete example can be found on this gist which was created from bits of the internal opscode-hubot cookbook which we use to deploy, Paula Deen, Chef's hubot instance.

One important item to note is the use of the remote_directory resource to distribute our internal hubot scripts to the install:

remote_directory "#{node['hubot']['install_dir']}/scripts" do
  source "scripts"
  files_backup 0
  files_owner node['hubot']['user']
  files_group node['hubot']['group']
  files_mode '0644'
  owner node['hubot']['user']
  group node['hubot']['group']
  overwrite true
  mode '0755'
  notifies :restart, "service[hubot]", :delayed
end

License & Authors

Author: [Seth Chisamore][schisamo] (schisamo@gmail.com)

Author: [Tim Smith][tas50] (tsmith@chef.io)

Copyright: 2013-2015, Seth Chisamore

Copyright: 2015, Tim Smith Copyright: 2016, Chef Software, Inc

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
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