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I want to install Jenkins on a VM using Chef (and Apache Brooklyn). The blueprint being used is, 

name: chef-jenkins
location:
  jclouds:aws-ec2:
    region: xyz
services:
- type: chef:jenkins
  cookbook_urls:
    jenkins: .../jenkins.tgz
    runit:  ... /runit.tgz
    apt:     .../apt.tgz
    yum:     .../yum20150407-59421-1bw7bou.tar.gz
  launch_run_list: [ "jenkins::start" ]
  service_name: jenkinsd

The service_name parameter is incorrect.

Running this throws an error "Failure running task ssh: run chef for launch (jSUGhBph): SSH task ended with exit code 1 when 0 was required, in Task[ssh: run chef for launch:jSUGhBph]: run chef for launch".

What else am I missing? Is it possible to run a simple chef recipe (e.g. https://gist.github.com/nstielau/978920) directly?

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The error message you saw indicates that one of the shell commands that Brooklyn tried to run on the cloud server failed - in particular to "run chef for launch" command. To find out why this failed, use the Activity tab:

  1. The tree view on the left contains the whole application. Expand this.
  2. This will reveal the entities that make up the application. This blueprint has only one, called jenkins (chef) - click on this.
  3. Click on the Activity tab. This will show you the list of tasks. One of them will have the status Failed - click on this.
  4. Tasks can have subtasks, so you may see another task list, with one in status Failed - keep following this trail until you come to the last failed task
  5. If this is an SSH task, you will have links to download stdout and stderr - you can inspect these to find out exactly why the shell command failed.

You can also find a section on troubleshooting in the Apache Brooklyn user guide which may help diagnose other problems.

I've taken your blueprint and made a few modifications; this is now working on my Ubuntu 14.04 image:

name: chef-jenkins
location: vagrant-trusty
services:
- type: chef:jenkins
  cookbook_urls:
    jenkins: data:application/octet-stream;charset=UTF-8;base64,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
    apt:     https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/apt/archive/v2.7.0.tar.gz
    java:    https://github.com/agileorbit-cookbooks/java/archive/v1.29.0.tar.gz
  launch_run_list: [ "jenkins::default" ]
  service_name: jenkins
  launch_attributes:
    java:
      jdk_version: 7

This blueprint is ready-to-run (except for changing the location to match your requirements). Here are some of the changes I have made:

  • Full URLs for the three cookbooks
  • The jenkins data URL contains a bare-bones cookbook containing the recipe you referred to in a gist, tarred-and-gzipped
  • For the jenkins cookbook, I had to specify depends "apt" and depends "java" in metadata.rb otherwise I got strange Chef errors
  • Fixed launch_run_list to refer to the correct recipe name
  • Fixed service_name to refer to the correct service name
  • Added launch_attributes to configure the Java cookbook to install Java 7 (the default of Java 6 is not supported by Jenkins)
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