⚠️ ANNOUNCEMENT - Sensu 1.x has reached End-Of-Life (December 31st, 2019)

The Sensu 1.x project reached end-of-life on December 31st, 2019. The existing package repositories became unreachable on January 6th, 2020. Please see our blog post for more details: https://blog.sensu.io/announcing-the-sensu-archives

Sensu 1.x has been superseded by Sensu Go.

As always, we want to hear from the Community and please reach out on Slack or Discourse if you have any questions or concerns.

Sensu Omnibus project

This project uses Chef's Omnibus toolchain to create full-stack platform-specific Sensu packages.

The configuration data in this repository describes the various dependencies which are built and included in the Sensu omnibus package. In addition to omnibus configuration, the project also includes a Chef cookbook, Test Kitchen and Travis CI configuration for executing individual builds in AWS EC2 compute instances.

Supported Platforms

Packages Built Using Automation Pipeline

Packages for Linux platforms are built automatically whenever a tag following the format $SENSU_VERSION-$BUILD_NUMBER is created on this repository.

This is accomplished using Travis CI to run Test Kitchen for the following platform and architecture combinations:

Platform & Version	64bit	32bit	Comments
Ubuntu 12.04	✅	✅
Ubuntu 14.04	✅	✅
Ubuntu 16.04	✅	❌	No official 32bit images
Ubuntu 18.04	✅	❌	No official 32bit images
Debian 7	✅	✅
Debian 8	✅	❌	No official 32bit images
Debian 9	✅	❌	No official 32bit images
CentOS 5	✅	✅	32 and 64bit images built with sensu-omnibus-packer
CentOS 6	✅	✅	Using unofficial 32bit image
CentOS 7	✅	❌	No official 32bit images
FreeBSD 10	✅	❌	Official 32bit images are out of date
FreeBSD 11	✅	❌	No official 32bit images
Windows 2012r2	✅	✅	32bit artifact built on 64bit platform
Mac OS X 10.10	✅	❌	See Mac platform notes for instructions
Mac OS X 10.11	✅	❌	See Mac platform notes for instructions
macOS 10.12	✅	❌	See Mac platform notes for instructions

Packages Built By Hand

Additional platform packages are built by hand on an ad hoc basis. We hope to add these builds to the automation pipeline in the future.

Platform & Version	Architecture	Comments
AIX	PowerPC	See AIX platform notes for instructions
Solaris 10	i386	See Solaris 10 for instructions
Solaris 11	i386	Documentation needed

Installation

This project requires a Ruby 1.9+ environment with Bundler installed. Ensure all the required gems are installed:

$ bundle install --binstubs

Test Kitchen Usage

The Test Kitchen .kitchen.yml configuration in this project defines the list of platforms we can build using Test Kitchen + Travis CI automation.

In combination with the sensu_omnibus cookbook and Berksfile included in this project, builds can be initiated on EC2 instances from your local environment using the kitchen command, e.g.:

$ ./bin/kitchen test ubuntu-1204

This test will provision a new EC2 instance, install Chef and use Chef to initiate a Sensu package build using the values of environment variables described in the next section.

For a complete list of all commands and platforms, run kitchen list or kitchen help.

Test Kitchen Environment Variables

Automated builds use a Test Kitchen configuration which relies on the following environment variables set to appropriate values:

Environment Variable	Description
AWS_REGION	Region where AWS instances will be created
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID	Access key ID for AWS account
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY	Secret access key for AWS account
AWS_SSH_KEY_ID	Name of SSH key pair (must exist in specified AWS region)
AWS_SSH_KEY_PATH	Local path to SSH private key matching named SSH key
SENSU_VERSION	Must correspond to a published Sensu gem available on RubyGems
BUILD_NUMBER	Denotes the incremental build number used for package artifacts

Additionally, the following optional environment variables are used if they are set:

Environment Variable	Description
AWS_IAM_PROFILE_NAME	Optional IAM profile name to be associated with EC2 instances
BUILD_PLATFORM	Optional platform name, set by Travis CI when creating per-platform jobs
TRAVIS_JOB_NUMBER	Optional job identifier, set by Travis CI. Used for tagging EC2 instances
GPG_PASSPHRASE	Optional passphrase for signing package artifacts; currently unused
GNUPG_PATH	Optional path to gpg keyring for signing package artifacts; currently unused
AWS_S3_CACHE_BUCKET	S3 bucket containing optional build dependency cache. If unset, dependencies are downloaded directly from upstream sources.
AWS_S3_ARTIFACT_BUCKET	S3 bucket where build artifacts (packages) will be uploaded after a successful build.

AWS Credential Security

Automated build pipeline makes use of Travis CI encryption to secure sensitive environment variables, as well as a copy of the ssh private key required to access the EC2 instances this pipeline creates.

As a result, should the AWS credentials or ssh key pair for this pipeline require rotating, the travis utility should be used to:

• update the secure environment variables in .travis.yml:

travis encrypt AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=... AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=... --add

• update the ciphertext copy of ssh private key in .travis/sensu-omnibus-artifact-builder.pem.enc:

  travis encrypt-file sensu-omnibus-artifact-builder.pem