Greetings! Today, I'll be outlining some examples and patterns for packaging Windows applications with Chef Habitat.
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Examples
These are the main types of patterns we see in the field so I'm going to outline the basic info needed to get started. All applications have their own essence/flavor so they may need additional tuning beyond what's outlined here.
Zipped Artifact
Background
In this example, we have an app that's published as a zipped archive of the application files to URL based storage (Artifactory, S3, etc).
Habitat's default behavior is to download the file, verify the checksum, then unpack the archive into $HAB_CACHE_SRC_PATH/$pkg_name-$pkg_version so we'll only override the Invoke-Install
callback.
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$pkg_name="packer" $pkg_origin="core" $pkg_version="1.3.5" $pkg_maintainer="The Habitat Maintainers <humans@habitat.sh>" $pkg_license=@('MPL2') $pkg_bin_dirs=@("bin") $pkg_source="https://releases.hashicorp.com/packer/${pkg_version}/packer_${pkg_version}_windows_amd64.zip" $pkg_shasum="57d30d5d305cf877532e93526c284438daef5db26d984d16ee85e38a7be7cfbb" function Invoke-Install { Copy-Item "$HAB_CACHE_SRC_PATH/$pkg_name-$pkg_version/$pkg_name.exe" $pkg_prefix\bin }
Executable Binary
Background
Next, we'll look at one that's a single executable, in this case NuGet. It's a single executable so there's no need for any unpacking. Since Habitat's default action is to attempt an unpack, we'll need to override the Invoke-Unpack callback to keep it from erroring out.
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$pkg_name="nuget" $pkg_origin="core" $pkg_version="4.6.2" $pkg_license=('Apache-2.0') $pkg_upstream_url="https://dist.nuget.org/index.html" $pkg_description="NuGet is the package manager for the Microsoft development platform including .NET." $pkg_maintainer="The Habitat Maintainers <humans@habitat.sh>" $pkg_source="https://dist.nuget.org/win-x86-commandline/v${pkg_version}/nuget.exe" $pkg_shasum="2c562c1a18d720d4885546083ec8eaad6773a6b80befb02564088cc1e55b304e" $pkg_bin_dirs=@("bin") function Invoke-Unpack { } function Invoke-Install { Copy-Item "$HAB_CACHE_SRC_PATH/nuget.exe" "$pkg_prefix/bin" -Force }
Git Repository
Background
Our app team is diligent about storing their code in a git repo, so let's go straight to the source! Since there's no $pkg_source
, Habitat won't try to download or verify, so how do we get our files? We can use the Invoke-Unpack
callback to do that for us.
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$pkg_name="moonsweeper-py" $pkg_origin="jmassardo" $pkg_version="0.1.0" $pkg_maintainer="James Massardo <james@dxrf.com>" $pkg_license=@("Apache-2.0") $pkg_deps=@('jmassardo/python') $pkg_build_deps=@('core/git') $pkg_description="Moonsweeper — A minesweeper clone, on a moon with aliens, in PyQt." $pkg_upstream_url="https://github.com/mfitzp/15-minute-apps/tree/master/minesweeper" function Invoke-Unpack{ write-output "Attempting to clone repo" cd $HAB_CACHE_SRC_PATH git clone https://github.com/mfitzp/15-minute-apps.git } function Invoke-Install{ Copy-Item -Path "$HAB_CACHE_SRC_PATH\15-minute-apps\minesweeper" -Destination "$pkg_prefix" -recurse }
NOTE: Please take note of the two different dependency types: $pkg_deps
and $pkg_build_deps
.
$pkg_deps
includes dependencies that are needed during runtime.$pkg_build_deps
includes dependencies that are only used during the package build. In our example, we only need core/git
to clone the repo during build so there's no need to include those files when we're running in production.
Legacy Folder
Background
There are times when we need to put the source files and the Habitat files together. In this circumstance, we'll reference the $PLAN_CONTEXT
variable as it has the location on your local dev machine for the files in your plan directory.
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$pkg_name="contosouniversity" $pkg_origin="mwrock" $pkg_version="0.1.0" $pkg_maintainer="The Habitat Maintainers <humans@habitat.sh>" $pkg_license=@("Apache-2.0") $pkg_deps=@("core/dsc-core") $pkg_build_deps=@("core/nuget") $pkg_binds=@{"database"="username password port"} function Invoke-Build { Copy-Item $PLAN_CONTEXT/../* $HAB_CACHE_SRC_PATH/$pkg_dirname -recurse -force nuget restore "$HAB_CACHE_SRC_PATH/$pkg_dirname/C#/$pkg_name/packages.config" -PackagesDirectory "$HAB_CACHE_SRC_PATH/$pkg_dirname/C#/packages" -Source "https://www.nuget.org/api/v2" nuget install MSBuild.Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.targets -Version 14.0.0.3 -OutputDirectory $HAB_CACHE_SRC_PATH/$pkg_dirname/ $env:VSToolsPath = "$HAB_CACHE_SRC_PATH/$pkg_dirname/MSBuild.Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.targets.14.0.0.3/tools/VSToolsPath" ."$env:SystemRoot\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe" "$HAB_CACHE_SRC_PATH/$pkg_dirname/C#/$pkg_name/${pkg_name}.csproj" /t:Build /p:VisualStudioVersion=14.0 if($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) { Write-Error "dotnet build failed!" } } function Invoke-Install { ."$env:SystemRoot\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe" "$HAB_CACHE_SRC_PATH/$pkg_dirname/C#/$pkg_name/${pkg_name}.csproj" /t:WebPublish /p:WebPublishMethod=FileSystem /p:publishUrl=$pkg_prefix/www }
MSI Based Installers
Background
Most Windows Admins are familiar with MSI based installers. We really need the files inside the MSI and not the installation instructions so let's use lessmsi
to extract the MSI file. Depending on the application, you may need to add some additional actions:
- Set up additional app requirements such as registry keys via the
init
hook. - Remove these items via the
post-stop
hook - Consider using the
reload
and/or reconfigure
hooks to update registry keys
These actions will allow you to use gossiped data and toml files to update the running config of the app, e.g redirecting a Win32 forms app to a different database server.
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$pkg_name="rust" $pkg_origin="core" $pkg_version="1.33.0" $pkg_description="Safe, concurrent, practical language" $pkg_upstream_url="https://www.rust-lang.org/" $pkg_license=@("Apache-2.0", "MIT") $pkg_maintainer="The Habitat Maintainers <humans@habitat.sh>" $pkg_source="https://static.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-$pkg_version-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.msi" $pkg_shasum="cc27799843a146745d4054afa5de1f1f5ab19d539d8c522a909b3c8119e46f99" $pkg_deps=@("core/visual-cpp-redist-2015", "core/visual-cpp-build-tools-2015") $pkg_build_deps=@("core/lessmsi") $pkg_bin_dirs=@("bin") $pkg_lib_dirs=@("lib") function Invoke-Unpack { mkdir "$HAB_CACHE_SRC_PATH/$pkg_dirname" Push-Location "$HAB_CACHE_SRC_PATH/$pkg_dirname" try { lessmsi x (Resolve-Path "$HAB_CACHE_SRC_PATH/$pkg_filename").Path } finally { Pop-Location } } function Invoke-Install { Copy-Item "$HAB_CACHE_SRC_PATH/$pkg_dirname/rust-$pkg_version-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc/SourceDir/Rust/*" "$pkg_prefix" -Recurse -Force } # This isn't always needed function Invoke-Check() { (& "$HAB_CACHE_SRC_PATH/$pkg_dirname/Rust/bin/rustc.exe" --version).StartsWith("rustc $pkg_version") }
EXE Based Installers
Background
A lot of windows utilities come packaged via exe based installers. Here, we'll look at installing 7zip using its exe installer. As you can see, we're starting to develop a pattern, download, unpack, install.
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$pkg_name="7zip" $pkg_origin="core" $pkg_version="16.04" $pkg_license=@("LGPL-2.1", "unRAR restriction") $pkg_upstream_url="http://www.7-zip.org/" $pkg_description="7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio" $pkg_maintainer="The Habitat Maintainers <humans@habitat.sh>" $pkg_source="http://www.7-zip.org/a/7z$($pkg_version.Replace('.',''))-x64.exe" $pkg_shasum="9bb4dc4fab2a2a45c15723c259dc2f7313c89a5ac55ab7c3f76bba26edc8bcaa" $pkg_filename="7z$($pkg_version.Replace('.',''))-x64.exe" $pkg_bin_dirs=@("bin") function Invoke-Unpack { Start-Process "$HAB_CACHE_SRC_PATH/$pkg_filename" -Wait -ArgumentList "/S /D=`"$(Resolve-Path $HAB_CACHE_SRC_PATH)/$pkg_dirname`"" } function Invoke-Install { Copy-Item * "$pkg_prefix/bin" -Recurse -Force }
Windows Role/Feature based installs
Background
Ooo… Here's a tricky one… Let's say we need IIS to support our webapp.
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$pkg_name="iis-webserverrole" $pkg_origin="core" $pkg_version="0.1.0" $pkg_maintainer="The Habitat Maintainers <humans@habitat.sh>" $pkg_license=@("Apache-2.0") $pkg_description="Installs Basic IIS Web Server features"
Hey, wait just a dang minute, where are the callbacks?!? Well… there aren't any. In this case, we can't actually fully package IIS because it's a Windows component. So now what? We still need IIS for our app. We use a different path, the install
hook. This hook is triggered when you run hab pkg install
…. We'll use it install the features/roles we need. It's not technically packaged in Hab but it is "habatized" in the sense that we can track it as a dependency and trigger the install if it's missing.
# Install hook function Test-Feature { Write-Host "Check if IIS-WebServerRole is enabled..." $(dism /online /get-featureinfo /featurename:IIS-WebServerRole) -contains "State : Enabled" } if (!(Test-Feature)) { Write-Host "Enabling IIS-WebServerRole..." dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:IIS-WebServerRole if (!(Test-Feature)) { Write-Host "IIS-WebServerRole was not enabled!" exit 1 } }
Closing
I'd like to take credit for writing all these plans but, alas, I can't. Fortunately, the awesome folks on the Habitat team publish these, along with like 600 other core plans, in their github org, Habitat-sh/Core-plans.
If you run across another significant pattern that isn't here, please let me know so I can update this page!
If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to contact me: @jamesmassardo
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