Steps To Replicate
On Windows 8.
In shell (with SSH connection active):
rhc snapshot save [appname]
Error
No system SSH available. Please use the --ssh option to specify the path to your SSH executable, or install SSH.
Suggested Solution
From this post:
Usage: rhc snapshot-save <application> [--filepath FILE] [--ssh path_to_ssh_executable]
Pass '--help' to see the full list of options
Question
The path to keys on PC is:
C:\Users\[name]\.ssh
How do I define this in the rhc snaphot command?
Solution
rhc snapshot save [appname] --filepath FILE --ssh "C:\Users\[name]\.ssh"
This will show the message:
Pulling down a snapshot of application '[appname]' to FILE ...
... then after a while
Pulling down a snapshot of application '[appname]' to FILE ... DONE
Update
That saved the backup in a file called "FILE" without an extension, so I'm guessing in the future I should define the filename as something like "my_app_backup.tar.gz" ie:
rhc snapshot save [appname] --filepath "my_app_backup.tar.gz" --ssh "C:\Users\[name]\.ssh"
It will save in the repo directory, so make sure you move it out of this directory before you git add, commit, push etc, otherwise you will upload your backup too.
Related
I started with the Aerogear quickstart cartridge. Now I want to take a snapshot to edit the bin/control file, as I have no permission on this if I ssh into the cartridge.
The problem is that the file in aerogear-push/bin/control is not restored and stays the same old file after I do a rhc snapshot restore.
I have to change the control file as the file needs to be changed for the upcoming openshift update on 15th September..
Any hints?
Kind regards
The reason the restore isn't overwriting those files with the new fixes is because the restore isn't being done as root and therefore those bin files won't be overwritten. If you're wanting to update your application because of the changes being made, I would suggest running the rhc app create <newappname> --from-app <current app name> to essentially clone your application but re-deploy with the latest cartridge updates.
I'm trying to save an App snapshot on OpenShift, however it complains that my application isn't found. When I type rhc apps my application is correctly listed, not sure what I could be doing wrong.
For example:
appname # http://appname-domain.rhcloud.com
when I run rhc snapshot save -a appname, I get:
Application 'appname' not found.
If the application is not in your default namespace, then you will need to add the -n option to your rhc snapshot save command. That could be your issue.
I have an application in Openshift free plan with only one gear. I want to change it to scalabe and take usage of all of 3 free gears.
I read this blog post from openshift and I found that there is a way to do it. I should clone my current application to a new one as a scalable which will use the 2 remaining gears and then I will delete the original application. Thus, the new one will have 3 free gears.
The way that blog suggest is: rhc create-app <clone> --from-app <existing> --scaling
I have the following error: invalid option --from-app
Update
After running the command gem update rhc, I don't have the error above but...A new application with the given name has created with the same starting package (Python 2.7) just like the existing one, but all the files are missing. It actually create a blank application and not a clone of the existing.
Update 2
Here is the structure of the folder:
-.git
-.openshift
-wsgi
---static
---views
---application
---main.py
-requirements.txt
-setup.py
From what we've talked on IRC, your problem was around missing SSH configuration on Windows machine:
Creating application xxx ... done
Waiting for your DNS name to be available ...done
Setting deployment configuration ... done
No system SSH available. Please use the --ssh option to specify the path to your SSH executable, or install SSH.
I've double checked it, and it appears to be working without any problem.
The only requirement is to have the latest rhc client and putty or any other
SSH client. I'd recommend going through this tutorial once again and double-check everything to make sure everything is working properly.
Make sure you are using the newest version of the rhc gem with "gem update rhc" to make sure that you have access to that feature from the command line.
The --from-app will essentially do a 'rhc snapshot save & snapshot restore` (amoung other things) as you can see here from the source:
if from_app
say "Setting deployment configuration ... "
rest_app.configure({:auto_deploy => from_app.auto_deploy, :keep_deployments => from_app.keep_deployments , :deployment_branch => from_app.deployment_branch, :deployment_type => from_app.deployment_type})
success 'done'
snapshot_filename = temporary_snapshot_filename(from_app.name)
save_snapshot(from_app, snapshot_filename)
restore_snapshot(rest_app, snapshot_filename)
File.delete(snapshot_filename) if File.exist?(snapshot_filename)
paragraph { warn "The application '#{from_app.name}' has aliases set which were not copied. Please configure the aliases of your new application manually." } unless from_app.aliases.empty?
end
However this will not copy over anything in your $OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR directory so if you're storing files there, you'll need to copy them over manually.
After installing and playing around with mercurial , I am trying to get Hudson to clone the repository so it can build my project.
At the moment the following task works.
I Can sync to my external host and the code shows up on that host.
Now I am trying to configure hudson / jenkins to access the code on my host.
But unfortunately I am rolling on a error:
Started by user anonymous
$ hg clone --rev default https://bitbucket.org/*/testproject "F:\Hudson\jobs\testproject\workspace"
abort: http authorization required
ERROR: Failed to clone https://bitbucket.org/*/testproject
[workspace] $ hg log --rev . --template {node}
java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "hg" (in directory "F:\Hudson\jobs\testproject\workspace"): CreateProcess error=267, The directory name is invalid
at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:460)
at hudson.Proc$LocalProc.<init>(Proc.java:244)
at hudson.Proc$LocalProc.<init>(Proc.java:216)
at hudson.Launcher$LocalLauncher.launch(Launcher.java:698)
at hudson.Launcher$ProcStarter.start(Launcher.java:329)
at hudson.Launcher$ProcStarter.join(Launcher.java:336)
at hudson.plugins.mercurial.MercurialSCM.joinWithPossibleTimeout(MercurialSCM.java:298)
at hudson.plugins.mercurial.HgExe.popen(HgExe.java:191)
at hudson.plugins.mercurial.HgExe.tip(HgExe.java:171)
at hudson.plugins.mercurial.MercurialSCM.calcRevisionsFromBuild(MercurialSCM.java:254)
at hudson.scm.SCM._calcRevisionsFromBuild(SCM.java:304)
at hudson.model.AbstractProject.calcPollingBaseline(AbstractProject.java:1186)
at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1175)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.checkout(AbstractBuild.java:523)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.run(AbstractBuild.java:418)
at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:1362)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:46)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:145)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: CreateProcess error=267, The directory name is invalid
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.create(Native Method)
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.<init>(ProcessImpl.java:81)
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:30)
at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:453)
... 18 more
Finished: FAILURE
What actions do i need to do to tell Hudson to use username x and password y to acces the data?
Edited => Found how to integrate ssh .
Used SSH instead of https
Download putty.exe, puttygen.exe, pageant.exe, and plink.exe from the PuTTY website.
Start puttygen and generate a key in OPENSSH FORMAT (hudsons format) (=> How to use Svn + SSH )
Click the Save private key button and save the .PPK file somewhere.
Click the Save public key button and save it.
Go to your website and enter the public ssh-key
Run pageant.exe. The pageant icon (a computer wearing a hat) will show up in the status tray.
Right-click the pageant icon and choose Add Key.
Choose the .PPK file you saved earlier and type in its passphrase.
The following (end part is copied) from Ted Naleid (Thank you!) blog witch can be found here : Hooking up hudson to your ...
Install the Mercurial plugin in Hudson
All that’s left to do now is install
the Mercurial plugin in hudson. In a
browser, go to
http://INSERT_YOUR_IP_HERE:8080.
Hudson should come up.
Click on “Manage Hudson” and go to
“Manage Plugins”. Go to the
“Available” tab, check “Hudson
Mercurial plugin” and hit the
“Install” button. Hudson will prompt
you to restart, and then it’s
installed.
After that, just create a new job and
you’ll have a new “mercurial” option
in the “source control management”
section. Select that and put the ssh
URL in the “Repository URL” field.
Then put “default” in the “branch”
field and set up the rest of the job
to build/test your code (an exercise
left to the reader).
and here it is the first succesfull build !
Conclusion : This is a summary of all the small blogpost scattered arround the internet. I hope this post helps you in starting hudson and mercurial.
I think the problem is not related to username and password. Your stacktrace tells you there's something wrong with the path F:\Hudson\jobs\testproject\workspace.
Cannot run program hg (in directory
"F:\Hudson\jobs\testproject\workspace")
The directory name is invalid
Anyway, you can specify the username and password in the URL like: http://user:password#mydomain.org.
To authenticate the Jenkins/Hudson Mercurial plugin with BitBucket I too found it useful to use the SSH protocol instead of HTTPS particularly since:
there doesn't seem to be a way to store your HTTPS credentials to BitBucket with the Mercurial Jenkins plugin, but with SSH you can safely and securely store your credentials
with SSH you can configure it to use compression, which Mercurial doesn't do natively.
Good instructions for setting up SSH access to BitBucket are available here: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BITBUCKET/Using+SSH+to+Access+your+Bitbucket+Repository
Notes:
If you are running Jenkins/Hudson on a *nix server, you will want to login as the user running the Jenkins process and perform these operations from that users home directory, so the configurations will be found by that user (e.g. on my Debian server installation of Jenkins standalone, the user 'jenkins' is created and the home directory is set to '/var/lib/jenkins' [not /home/jenkins] - where I performed the instructions provided at the above link).
I found it very helpful to assure the hg clone command worked from the command line before attempting to have Jenkins call it.
IMPORTANT: In order to get this to work, I had to generate a key ** without ** a passphrase.
You can add the following lines to jenkins .hgrc file (usually /var/lib/jenkins/.hgrc)
[auth]
bitbucket.prefix = https://bitbucket.org/your_user/...
bitbucket.username = your_user
bitbucket.password = ******
See http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hgrc.5.html#auth
You can add your scm credentials in the 'Credentials` section of Jenkins:
Also change the job configuration to use the credentials:
I use mercurial in my project, and every time I push new changesets to the server by ssh, it ask me for a password.
Then how to config the mercurial to push with out asking password?
I works on Ubuntu 9.10
On Linux and Mac, use ssh-agent.
Ensure you have an ssh keypair (see man ssh-keygen for details)
Copy your public key (from ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub) to the remote machine, giving it a unique name (such as myhost_key.pub)
Log in to the remote machine normally and append the public key you just copied to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file
Run ssh-add on your local workstation to add your key to the keychain
You can now use any remote hg commands in this session without requiring authentication.
Assuming you're using Windows, have a read of my Mercurial/SSH guide. Down the bottom of the post you'll find info on how to use PuTTy to do this for you.
Edit: -- Here's the part of the post that I'm talking about (bear in mind you'll need to have pageant running with your key already loaded for this to work):
Client: Setting up Mercurial
If you haven't already, make sure you install Mercurial on the client machine using the default settings. Make sure you tell the installer to add the Mercurial path to the system PATH.
The last step of configuration for the client is to tell Mercurial to use the PuTTy tools when using SSH. Mercurial can be configured by a user-specific configuration file called .hgrc. On Windows it can also be called Mercurial.ini. The file is located in your home folder. If you don't know what your home folder is, simply open a command prompt and type echo %USERPROFILE% - this will tell you the path.
If you haven't set up your configuration yet, then chances are the configuration file doesn't exist. So you'll have to create it. Create a file call either .hgrc or Mercurial.ini in your home folder manually, and open it in a text editor. Here is what part of mine looks like:
[ui]
username = OJ Reeves
editor = vim
ssh = plink -ssh -i "C:/path/to/key/id_rsa.ppk" -C -agent
The last line is the key and this is what you need to make sure it set properly. We are telling Mercurial to use the plink program. This also comes with PuTTy and is a command-line version of what the PuTTY program itself does behind the scenes. We also add a few parameters:
-ssh : Indicates that we're using the SSH protocol.
-i "file.ppk" : Specifies the location of the private key file we want to use to log in to the remote server. Change this to point to your local putty-compatible ppk private key. Make sure you user forward-slashes for the path separators as well!
-C : This switch enables compression.
-agent : This tells plink to talk to the pageant utility to get the passphrase for the key instead of asking you for it interactively.
The client is now ready to rock!
Install PuTTY.
If you're on Windows, open projectdir/.hg/hgrc in your favorite text editor. Edit it to look like this:
[paths]
default = ssh://hg#bitbucket.org/name/project
[ui]
username = Your Name <your#email.com>
ssh = "C:\Program Files (x86)\PuTTY\plink.exe" -ssh -i "C:\path\to\your\private_key.ppk" -C -agent
If it's taking forever to push, the server might be trying to ask you a question (but it's not displayed).
Run this:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\PuTTY\plink.exe" -T hg#bitbucket.org -i "C:\Program Files (x86)\PuTTY\plink.exe" -ssh -i "C:\path\to\your\private_key.ppk"
Answer any questions, and then try pushing again.
If you're using Bitbucket, open your private key with puttygen, copy your public key out of the top textbox, and add it to your user account: https://bitbucket.org/account/user/USERNAME/ssh-keys/