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Manual testing

The recipe installation can be tested manually. To do so, the Deployer can be used to provisioned new hosts in AWS, using similar setup than the automated tests, without any instrumentation installed on them.

Provision new set of hosts

Get the latest docker image of the Deployer

docker pull newrelic/deployer:latest

Then start the provisioning of all hosts using the Deployer in batch mode.

Run the snippet below after replacing:

• The path <absolute_path> with the absolute path to the manual definitions folder (docker requires absolute path for mounting directories)
• The file <my_user_config_filename>.json with your actual deployer user config filename (assumed to be in your ~/configs folder)

docker run -i \
-v ~/configs/:/mnt/deployer/configs/ \
-v <absolute_path>/definitions/:/mnt/deployer/definitions/ \
--entrypoint ruby newrelic/deployer:latest batch.rb -c configs/<my_user_config_filename>.json -d definitions -s 20 -m deploy -l debug

Testing

Once all hosts are provisioned, you can SSH to the instance, and run the newrelic-cli as indicated from the UI.

Auto Config Default Params

Use the ohi-auto-config directory for provisioning instances with integrations already configured. When running newrelic install, these are the values to be used with the CLI prompts:

docker run -it \
  -v $HOME/configs/:/mnt/deployer/configs/ \
  -v <absolute_path>/open-install-library/test/manual/definitions/ohi-auto-config/:/mnt/deployer/ohi-auto-config/ \
  --entrypoint ruby newrelic/deployer:latest batch.rb -c configs/<my_user_config_filename>.json -d ohi-auto-config -s 20 -m deploy -l debug

Recipe	Prompt Values
Apache	Status URL: http://127.0.0.1/server-status?auto
Cassandra	Username: newrelic Password: Virtuoso4all! Hostname: localhost Port: 7199
Elasticsearch	Username: newrelic Password: Virtuoso4all! Hostname: localhost Port: 9200 Config file: /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml Use SSL to connect? (true/false): false Default the rest (just press enter)
JMX (JBoss)	Username: newrelic Password: Virtuoso4all! Hostname: localhost Port: 9990 Are you using SSL? (y/n): n Default the rest (just press enter)
MySQL	Username: newrelic Password: Virtuoso4all! Hostname: localhost Port: 3306 Database Name: MysqlSample
MS SQL	Username: newrelic Password: the RDP password used to logon Hostname: 127.0.0.1 Port: 1433
Nginx	NGINX status URL: http://127.0.0.1/status
Redis	Hostname: localhost Password: Virtuoso4all! Port: 6379 Keyspace Metrics: '{}'

Windows

For the Windows host, you'll want to get the password from the AWS Console. While on the EC2 UI, right click the Windows instance, and click Connect. Then use your pem key to decrypt the password. Once you have the password, use a Remote Desktop Connection client with the credential Administrator and the password you've decrypted in AWS.

Tearing down

To teardown all the hosts, re-run the deployer in batch mode with the option -m teardown (instead of -m deploy).

Run the snippet below after replacing:

• The path <absolute_path> with the absolute path to the manual definitions folder (docker requires absolute path for mounting directories)
• The file <my_user_config_filename>.json with your actual deployer user config filename (assumed to be in your ~/configs folder)

docker run -i \
-v ~/configs/:/mnt/deployer/configs/ \
-v <absolute_path>/definitions/:/mnt/deployer/definitions/ \
--entrypoint ruby newrelic/deployer:latest batch.rb -c configs/<my_user_config_filename>.json -d definitions -s 20 -m teardown -l debug

macOS

NOTICE: According to Apple's SLA, macOS should only be virtualized on a macOS system using official Apple hardware. Apart from legal reasons, the virtualization will simply not work in most other environments.

Install the required software:

• Vagrant
• VirtualBox

Initialize a working directory and Vagrantfile:

mkdir macos-catalina
cd macos-catalina
vagrant init ramsey/macos-catalina

Add this line to the Vagrantfile (within the "Vagrant.configure" block of code):

config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", disabled: true

Start the local instance:

vagrant up

Once started, there are two forms of access:

• ssh: while in the macos-catalina folder, run: vagrant ssh
• GUI: open the VirtualBox application, select the macos-catalina host and click Show (the vagrant user has password: vagrant)

This method of running a macOS host uses a public GitHub project based off macinbox.

Ansible install scripts with Vagrant

Our install scripts can be used locally through the following steps.

Create a working directory:

mkdir vagrant-ansible-test
cd vagrant-ansible-test

Initialize a new Vagrantfile and playbook:

vagrant init bento/debian-10
touch playbook.yml

Edit the contents of the playbook:

---
- hosts: all
  gather_facts: true
  become: true
  roles:
    - ROLENAME

Add Ansible provisioning section to the Vagrantfile:

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|

  # Add this section to use the playbook
  config.vm.provision "ansible" do |ansible|
    ansible.playbook = "playbook.yml"
    ansible.extra_vars = {
      create_newrelic_user: true # required for some install scripts
    }
  end
end

Create roles directory:

mkdir -p ./roles/ROLENAME/tasks

Download a task file (i.e. Apache) to this directory:

curl -sLo ./roles/ROLENAME/tasks/main.yml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/newrelic/open-install-library/main/test/deploy/linux/apache/install/debian/roles/configure/tasks/main.yml

Smoke test:

vagrant up && vagrant destroy -f