Issues building the exhibitor immage

[jedi132000]

I am running into issues with the cookbook. it gives me a "Could not satisfy version constraints for: zookeeper". I made sure i had a working zookeeper and all the other dependencies that go with the build of exhibitor. Kindly help!!!.. My zookeeper build came from your repo, and that was successful. Thanks.

zookeeper (7.1.0) maven ~> 2.2 et_gradle ~> 2.0 magic ~> 1.5 runit ~> 1.7 java ~> 1.35 build-essential >= 0.0.0

[jeffbyrnes]

@jedi132000 I’m not sure I understand what you mean by “I had a working zookeeper”. That error you’re seeing comes from Berkshelf, which really only requires that you attempt to use the exhibitor cookbook by including it in your wrapper cookbook’s metadata or Berksfile.

What does your cookbook’s metadata look like? Do you have a repo for it somewhere that I can look at?

What do you mean by “zookeeper build”? Or “building the exhibitor immage [sic]”? There’s no need to do any building of anything; cookbooks are to be used as-is, without modification.

I do apologize, the README for this cookbook is sorely lacking. I’ll try to find some time soon to rewrite it to clearly lay out how best to use this cookbook, and perhaps provide some example usage.

[jedi132000]

I am sorry you misunderstood me, my intentions are to create a machine image with the exhibitor cookbook. I have created a zookeeper image with your cookbook and it works fine.The exhibitor cookbook has some dependencies and one of them is zookeeper cookbook ~>5. I believe i have all the dependent cookbooks, yet i am running into zookeeper version dependency errors. Hope i have been able to explain myself, and thanks for the timely and anticipated support.

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 6:17 AM, Jeff Byrnes notifications@github.com wrote:

@jedi132000 https://github.com/jedi132000 I’m not sure I understand what you mean by “I had a working zookeeper”. That error you’re seeing comes from Berkshelf, which really only requires that you attempt to use the exhibitor cookbook in some fashion.

What does your cookbook’s metadata look like? Do you have a repo for it somewhere that I can look at?

What do you mean by “zookeeper build”? Or “building the exhibitor immage [sic]”? There’s no need to do any building of anything; cookbooks are to be used as-is, without modification.

I do apologize, the README for this cookbook is sorely lacking. I’ll try to find some time soon to rewrite it to clearly lay out how best to use this cookbook, and perhaps provide some example usage.

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[jedi132000]

{"name":"exhibitor","version":"2.0.1","description":"Installs Netflix Exhibitor","long_description":"","maintainer":"EverTrue","maintainer_email":"devops@evertrue.com","license":"Apache v2.0","platforms":{},"dependencies":{"build-essential":">= 0.0.0","java":"~> 1.35","runit":"~> 1.7","zookeeper":"~> 5.0","magic":"~> 1.5","et_gradle":"~> 2.0","maven":"~> 2.2"},"recommendations":{},"suggestions":{},"conflicting":{},"providing":{},"replacing":{},"attributes":{},"groupings":{},"recipes":{}}

The above is what my metadata.json looks like.

[jedi132000]

[jeffbyrnes]

@jedi132000 you shouldn’t need to create an image from the zookeeper cookbook at all, as, like you say, this cookbook depends on zookeeper directly.

How are you building your images?

Generally speaking, you will want to create your own wrapper cookbook, to apply the settings appropriate for your usage of Exhibitor (and, by extension, ZooKeeper).

You can take a look at a new branch of our et_zookeeper cookbook, which wraps this cookbook.

As for resolving the dependencies, you will want to use Berkshelf for that. It comes as part of Chef DK, so you probably already have it, unless you’ve installed Chef via some other, less common means.

Berkshelf can also upload your wrapper cookbook & its dependencies to your Chef Server (if you are using a Chef Server).

[jedi132000]

let me give it a shot, thanks for the information.