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# runit Cookbook

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Installs runit and provides the `runit_service` service resource for managing processes (services) under runit.

This cookbook does not use runit to replace system init, nor are there plans to do so.

For more information about runit:

- <http://smarden.org/runit/>

NOTE: The 5.0 release of this cookbook requires the ChefSpec which shipped in the later versions of ChefDK 3. If you use this cookbook along with ChefSpec in your environment then you will need to upgrade to the latest version of ChefDK / Workstation to prevent spec failures.

## Requirements

### Platforms

- Debian/Ubuntu
- RHEL and derivatives

### Chef

- Chef 14.0+

### Cookbooks

- packagecloud (for RHEL)
- yum-epel (for RHEL)

## Attributes

- `node['runit']['prefer_local_yum']` - If `true`, assumes that a `runit` package is available on an already configured local yum repository. By default, the recipe installs the `runit` package from a Package Cloud repository (see below). This is set to the value of `node['runit']['use_package_from_yum']` for backwards compatibility, but otherwise defaults to `false`.

## Recipes

### default

The default recipe installs runit and starts `runsvdir` to supervise the services in runit's service directory (e.g., `/etc/service`).

On RHEL-family systems, it will install the runit RPM using [Ian Meyer's Package Cloud repository](https://packagecloud.io/imeyer/runit) for runit. This replaces the previous functionality where the RPM was build using his [runit RPM SPEC](https://github.com/imeyer/runit-rpm). However, if the attribute `node['runit']['prefer_local_yum']` is set to `true`, the packagecloud repository creation will be skipped and it is assumed that a `runit` package is available on an otherwise configured (outside this cookbook) local repository.

On Debian family systems, the runit packages are maintained by the runit author, Gerrit Pape, and the recipe will use that for installation.

## Resource

This cookbook has a resource, `runit_service`, for managing services under runit.

### Actions

- **enable** - enables the service, creating the required run scripts and symlinks. This is the default action.
- **start** - starts the service with `sv start`
- **stop** - stops the service with `sv stop`
- **disable** - stops the service with `sv down` and removes the service symlink
- **create** - create the service directory, but don't enable the service with symlink
- **restart** - restarts the service with `sv restart`
- **reload** - reloads the service with `sv force-reload`
- **reload_log** - reloads the service's log service
- **once** - starts the service with `sv once`.
- **hup** - sends the `HUP` signal to the service with `sv hup`
- **cont** - sends the `CONT` signal to the service
- **term** - sends the `TERM` signal to the service
- **kill** - sends the `KILL` signal to the service
- **up** - starts the service with `sv up`
- **down** - downs the service with `sv down`
- **usr1** - sends the `USR1` signal to the service with `sv 1`
- **usr2** - sends the `USR2` signal to the service with `sv 2`

Service management actions are taken with runit's "`sv`" program.

Read the `sv(8)` [man page](http://smarden.org/runit/sv.8.html) for more information on the `sv` program.

### Properties

The first three properties, `sv_dir`, `service_dir`, and `sv_bin` will attempt to use the legacy node attributes, and fall back to hardcoded default values that match the settings used on Debian platform systems.

Many of these properties are only used in the `:enable` action.

- **sv_dir** - The base "service directory" for the services managed by the resource. By default, this will attempt to use the `node['runit']['sv_dir']` attribute, and falls back to `/etc/sv`.
- **service_dir** - The directory where services are symlinked to be supervised by `runsvdir`. By default, this will attempt to use the `node['runit']['service_dir']` attribute, and falls back to `/etc/service`.
- **lsb_init_dir** - The directory where an LSB-compliant init script interface will be created. By default, this will attempt to use the `node['runit']['lsb_init_dir']` attribute, and falls back to `/etc/init.d`.
- **sv_bin** - The path to the `sv` program binary. This will attempt to use the `node['runit']['sv_bin']` attribute, and falls back to `/usr/bin/sv`.
- **service_name** - _Name attribute_. The name of the service. This will be used in the directory of the managed service in the `sv_dir` and `service_dir`.
- **sv_timeout** - Override the default `sv` timeout of 7 seconds.
- **sv_verbose** - Whether to enable `sv` verbose mode. Default is `false`.
- **sv_templates** - If true, the `:enable` action will create the service directory with the appropriate templates. Default is `true`. Set this to `false` if the service has a package that provides its own service directory. See **Usage** examples.
- **options** - DEPRECATED - Options passed as variables to templates, for compatibility with legacy runit service definition. Default is an empty hash.
- **env** - A hash of environment variables with their values as content used in the service's `env` directory. Default is an empty hash. When this hash is non-empty, the contents of the runit service's `env` directory will be managed by Chef in order to conform to the declared state.
- **log** - Whether to start the service's logger with svlogd, requires a template `sv-service_name-log-run.erb` to configure the log's run script. Default is true.
- **default_logger** - Whether a default `log/run` script should be set up. If true, the default content of the run script will use `svlogd` to write logs to `/var/log/service_name`. Default is false.
- **log_dir** - The directory where the `svlogd` log service will run. Used when `default_logger` is `true`. Default is `/var/log/service_name`
- **log_flags** - The flags to pass to the `svlogd` command. Used when `default_logger` is `true`. Default is `-tt`
- **log_size** - The maximum size a log file can grow to before it is automatically rotated. See svlogd(8) for the default value.
- **log_num** - The maximum number of log files that will be retained after rotation. See svlogd(8) for the default value.
- **log_min** - The minimum number of log files that will be retained after rotation (if svlogd cannot create a new file and the minimum has not been reached, it will block). Default is no minimum.
- **log_timeout** - The maximum age a log file can get to before it is automatically rotated, whether it has reached `log_size` or not. Default is no timeout.
- **log_processor** - A string containing a path to a program that rotated log files will be fed through. See the **PROCESSOR** section of svlogd(8) for details. Default is no processor.
- **log_socket** - An string containing an IP:port pair identifying a UDP socket that log lines will be copied to. Default is none.
- **log_prefix** - A string that will be prepended to each line as it is logged. Default is no prefix.
- **log_config_append** - A string containing optional additional lines to add to the log service configuration. See svlogd(8) for more details.
- **cookbook** - A cookbook where templates are located instead of where the resource is used. Applies for all the templates in the `enable` action.
- **check** - whether the service has a check script, requires a template `sv-service_name-check.erb`
- **finish** - whether the service has a finish script, requires a template `sv-service_name-finish.erb`
- **control** - An array of signals to customize control of the service, see [runsv man page](http://smarden.org/runit/runsv.8.html) on how to use this. This requires that each template be created with the name `sv-service_name-signal.erb`.
- **supervisor_owner** - the user that should be allowed to control this service, see [runsv faq](http://smarden.org/runit/faq.html#user)
- **supervisor_group** - the group that should be allowed to control this service, see [runsv faq](http://smarden.org/runit/faq.html#user)
- **owner** - user that should own the templates created to enable the service
- **group** - group that should own the templates created to enable the service
- **run_template_name** - alternate filename of the run run script to use replacing `service_name`.
- **log_template_name** - alternate filename of the log run script to use replacing `service_name`.
- **check_script_template_name** - alternate filename of the check script to use, replacing `service_name`.
- **finish_script_template_name** - alternate filename of the finish script to use, replacing `service_name`.
- **control_template_names** - a hash of control signals (see _control_ above) and their alternate template name(s) replacing `service_name`.
- **status_command** - The command used to check the status of the service to see if it is enabled/running (if it's running, it's enabled). This hardcodes the location of the sv program to `/usr/bin/sv` due to the aforementioned cookbook load order.
- **restart_on_update** - Whether the service should be restarted when the run script is updated. Defaults to `true`. Set to `false` if the service shouldn't be restarted when the run script is updated.
- **start_down** - Set the default state of the runit service to 'down' by creating `<sv_dir>/down` file. Defaults to `false`. Services using `start_down` will not be notified to restart when their run script is updated.
- **delete_downfile** - Delete previously created `<sv_dir>/down` file

Unlike previous versions of the cookbook using the `runit_service` definition, the `runit_service` resource can be notified. See **Usage** examples below.

## Usage

To get runit installed on supported platforms, use `recipe[runit]`. Once it is installed, use the `runit_service` resource to set up services to be managed by runit.

In order to use the `runit_service` resource in your cookbook(s), each service managed will also need to have `sv-service_name-run.erb` and `sv-service_name-log-run.erb` templates created. If the `log` property is false, the log run script isn't created. If the `log` property is true, and `default_logger` is also true, the log run script will be created with the default content:

```bash
#!/bin/sh
exec svlogd -tt /var/log/service_name
```

### Examples

These are example use cases of the `runit_service` resource described above. There are others in the `runit_test` cookbook that is included in the [git repository](https://github.com/hw-cookbooks/runit).

**Default Example**

This example uses all the defaults in the `:enable` action to set up the service.

We'll set up `chef-client` to run as a service under runit, such as is done in the `chef-client` cookbook. This example will be more simple than in that cookbook. First, create the required run template, `chef-client/templates/default/sv-chef-client-run.erb`.

```bash
#!/bin/sh
exec 2>&1
exec /usr/bin/env chef-client -i 1800 -s 30
```

Then create the required log/run template, `chef-client/templates/default/sv-chef-client-log-run.erb`.

```bash
#!/bin/sh
exec svlogd -tt ./main
```

**Note** This will cause output of the running process to go to `/etc/sv/chef-client/log/main/current`. Some people may not like this, see the following example. This is preserved for compatibility reasons.

Finally, set up the service in the recipe with:

```ruby
runit_service "chef-client"
```

**Default Logger Example**

To use a default logger with svlogd which will log to `/var/log/chef-client/current`, instead, use the `default_logger` option.

```ruby
runit_service "chef-client" do
  default_logger true
end
```

**No Log Service**

If there isn't an appendant log service, set `log` to false, and the log/run script won't be created.

```ruby
runit_service "no-svlog" do
  log false
end
```

**Check Script**

To create a service that has a check script in its service directory, set the `check` property to `true`, and create a `sv-checker-check.erb` template.

```ruby
runit_service "checker" do
  check true
end
```

This will create `/etc/sv/checker/check`.

**Finish Script**

To create a service that has a finish script in its service directory, set the `finish` property to `true`, and create a `sv-finisher-finish.erb` template.

```ruby
runit_service "finisher" do
  finish true
end
```

This will create `/etc/sv/finisher/finish`.

**Alternate service directory**

If the service directory for the managed service isn't the `sv_dir` (`/etc/sv`), then specify it:

```ruby
runit_service "custom_service" do
  sv_dir "/etc/custom_service/runit"
end
```

**No Service Directory**

If the service to manage has a package that provides its service directory, such as `git-daemon` on Debian systems, set `sv_templates` to false.

```ruby
package "git-daemon-run"

runit_service "git-daemon" do
  sv_templates false
end
```

This will create the service symlink in `/etc/service`, but it will not manage any templates in the service directory.

**User Controlled Services**

To set up services controlled by a non-privileged user, we follow the recommended configuration in the [runit documentation](http://smarden.org/runit/faq.html#user) (Is it possible to allow a user other than root to control a service?).

Suppose the user's name is floyd, and floyd wants to run floyds-app. Assuming that the floyd user and group are already managed with Chef, create a `runsvdir-floyd` runit_service.

```ruby
runit_service "runsvdir-floyd"
```

Create the `sv-runsvdir-floyd-log-run.erb` template, or add `log false`. Also create the `sv-runsvdir-floyd-run.erb` with the following content:

```bash
#!/bin/sh
exec 2>&1
exec chpst -ufloyd runsvdir /home/floyd/service
```

Next, create the `runit_service` resource for floyd's app:

```ruby
runit_service "floyds-app" do
  sv_dir "/home/floyd/sv"
  service_dir "/home/floyd/service"
  owner "floyd"
  group "floyd"
end
```

And now floyd can manage the service with sv:

```text
$ id
uid=1000(floyd) gid=1001(floyd) groups=1001(floyd)
$ sv stop /home/floyd/service/floyds-app/
ok: down: /home/floyd/service/floyds-app/: 0s, normally up
$ sv start /home/floyd/service/floyds-app/
ok: run: /home/floyd/service/floyds-app/: (pid 5287) 0s
$ sv status /home/floyd/service/floyds-app/
run: /home/floyd/service/floyds-app/: (pid 5287) 13s; run: log: (pid 4691) 726s
```

**Options**

Next, let's set up memcached under runit with some additional options using the `options` property. First, the `memcached/templates/default/sv-memcached-run.erb` template:

```bash
#!/bin/sh
exec 2>&1
exec chpst -u <%= @options[:user] %> /usr/bin/memcached -v -m <%= @options[:memory] %> -p <%= @options[:port] %>
```

Note that the script uses `chpst` (which comes with runit) to set the user option, then starts memcached on the specified memory and port (see below).

The log/run template, `memcached/templates/default/sv-memcached-log-run.erb`:

```bash
#!/bin/sh
exec svlogd -tt ./main
```

Finally, the `runit_service` in our recipe:

```ruby
runit_service "memcached" do
  options({
    :memory => node[:memcached][:memory],
    :port => node[:memcached][:port],
    :user => node[:memcached][:user]
  }.merge(params))
end
```

This is where the user, port and memory options used in the run template are used.

**Notifying Runit Services**

In previous versions of this cookbook where the definition was used, it created a `service` resource that could be notified. With the `runit_service` resource, recipes need to use the full resource name.

For example:

```ruby
runit_service "my-service"

template "/etc/my-service.conf" do
  notifies :restart, "runit_service[my-service]"
end
```

Because the resource implements actions for various commands that `sv` can send to the service, any of those actions could be used for notification. For example, `chef-client` supports triggering a Chef run with a USR1 signal.

```ruby
template "/tmp/chef-notifier" do
  notifies :usr1, "runit_service[chef-client]"
end
```

For older implementations of services that used `runit_service` as a definition, but may support alternate service styles, use a conditional, such as based on an attribute:

```ruby
service_to_notify = case node['nginx']['init_style']
                    when "runit"
                      "runit_service[nginx]"
                    else
                      "service[nginx]"
                    end

template "/etc/nginx/nginx.conf" do
  notifies :restart, service_to_notify
end
```

**More Examples**

For more examples, see the `runit_test` cookbook's `service` recipe in the [git repository](https://github.com/hw-cookbooks/runit).

## Development

You may use test kitchen with either the vagrant or docker drivers to run integration tests.

**Note:** When using the docker driver please ensure that the container you are using has a working init system, as runit expects to be started by init. In some cases, systemd may need to be run in privileged mode.

For instance, for ubuntu with upstart:

```
    driver_config:
      image: ubuntu-upstart:14.04
      run_command: /sbin/init
```

For redhat derivatives:

```
    driver_config:
      image: dockerhub/image-with-systemd
      run_command: /usr/sbin/init
      privileged: true
```

## License & Authors

- Author:: Adam Jacob [adam@chef.io](mailto:adam@chef.io)
- Author:: Joshua Timberman [joshua@chef.io](mailto:joshua@chef.io)
- Author:: Sean OMeara [sean@sean.io](mailto:sean@sean.io)

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You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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