So, much like the Godfather, just when I think I'm out, Ansible pulls me back in… Yesterday I tackled using Ansible to manage Sidekiq. Today I'm going to bring you:

  • Installing Sidekiq as a service
  • Viewing the status of the service

Let's start with installing Sidekiq as a service. Happily Mike Perham has built Sidekiq to run as a service (and thanks to Mike for the service configuration; noted and appreciated). Here's what you need:

playbook: playbook_service_install_and_start_sidekiq.yml

role: service_install_and_start_sidekiq.yml

---
- name: prevent sidekiq init from running if it has already been done
  stat: path=/etc/init/sidekiq.conf
  register: sidekiq_init_installed

- name: Copy sidekiq init template to init.d dir
  template: src=sidekiq_perham_init.j2 dest=/etc/init/_worker.conf owner=root group=root force=yes
  template: src=sidekiq_perham_init.j2 dest=/etc/init/sidekiq.conf owner=root group=root force=yes
  sudo: yes
  when: sidekiq_init_installed.stat.exists == False

- name: start_sidekiq
  service: name=sidekiq state=started enabled=yes

template: sidekiq_perham_init.js

# /etc/init/sidekiq.conf - Sidekiq config
# source: https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/blob/master/examples/upstart/sidekiq.conf

# This example config should work with Ubuntu 12.04+.  It
# allows you to manage multiple Sidekiq instances with
# Upstart, Ubuntu's native service management tool.
#
# See workers.conf for how to manage all Sidekiq instances at once.
#
# Save this config as /etc/init/sidekiq.conf then manage sidekiq with:
#   sudo start sidekiq index=0
#   sudo stop sidekiq index=0
#   sudo status sidekiq index=0
#
# Hack Upstart's reload command to 'quiet' Sidekiq:
#
#   sudo reload sidekiq index=0
#
# or use the service command:
#   sudo service sidekiq {start,stop,restart,status}
#

description "Sidekiq Background Worker"

# This script is not meant to start on bootup, workers.conf
# will start all sidekiq instances explicitly when it starts.
#start on runlevel [2345]
#stop on runlevel [06]

# change to match your deployment user
setuid 
setgid 
env HOME=

respawn
respawn limit 3 30

# TERM is sent by sidekiqctl when stopping sidekiq. Without declaring these as
# normal exit codes, it just respawns.
normal exit 0 TERM

# Older versions of Upstart might not support the reload command and need
# this commented out.
reload signal USR1

# Upstart waits 5 seconds by default to kill the a process. Increase timeout to
# give sidekiq process enough time to exit.
kill timeout 15

#instance $index
instance 0

script
# this script runs in /bin/sh by default
# respawn as bash so we can source in rbenv
exec /bin/bash <<'EOT'
  # Pick your poison :) Or none if you're using a system wide installed Ruby.
  # rbenv
  # source /home/apps/.bash_profile
  # OR
  # source /home/apps/.profile
  # OR system:
  # source /etc/profile.d/rbenv.sh
  #
  # rvm
  # source /home/apps/.rvm/scripts/rvm
  source 

  # Logs out to /var/log/upstart/sidekiq.log by default

  cd 
  #exec bundle exec sidekiq -i ${index} -e production
  exec bundle exec sidekiq -i 0 -e production
EOT
end script

output: 

ansible-playbook -i inventories/production2 playbook_service_install_and_start_sidekiq.yml
 [WARNING]: While constructing a mapping from
/Users/sjohnson/Dropbox/appdatallc/ansible/roles/service_install_and_start_sidekiq/tasks/main.yml, line 6, column 3, found a duplicate dict
key (template). Using last defined value only.

[DEPRECATION WARNING]: Instead of sudo/sudo_user, use become/become_user and make sure become_method is 'sudo' (default).
This feature will
be removed in a future release. Deprecation warnings can be disabled by setting deprecation_warnings=False in ansible.cfg.

PLAY [worker] ******************************************************************

TASK [setup] *******************************************************************
ok: [fiworker3]

TASK [service_install_and_start_sidekiq : prevent sidekiq init from running if it has already been done] ***
ok: [fiworker3]

TASK [service_install_and_start_sidekiq : Copy sidekiq init template to init.d dir] ***
skipping: [fiworker3]

TASK [service_install_and_start_sidekiq : start_sidekiq] ***********************
changed: [fiworker3]

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
fiworker3                  : ok=3    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0

Once you install this as service you do not want to log into N machines and check if its manually running so now you need this:

playbook: playbook_service_status_sidekiq.yml

role: service_status_sidekiq.yml

--- 
  
- name: display sidekiq's status
  shell: "service sidekiq status"
  register: out

- name: view the output
  debug: var=out.stdout_lines

output:

ansible-playbook -i inventories/production2 playbook_service_status_sidekiq.yml

PLAY [worker] ******************************************************************

TASK [setup] *******************************************************************
ok: [fiworker3]

TASK [service_status_sidekiq : display sidekiq's status] ***********************
changed: [fiworker3]
 [WARNING]: Consider using service module rather than running service

TASK [service_status_sidekiq : view the output] ********************************
ok: [fiworker3] => {
    "out.stdout_lines": [
        "sidekiq (0) start/running, process 7759"
    ]
}

As long as you see a process id here then you know its running. Would it be better to have this report out something like "Out of N boxes, sidekiq is running on N-1"? Sure. And I suspect that I will get there at some point but I have critical pressing needs today – all these examples are being written as part of actual devops that I'm doing now. These blog posts are the time stamped documentation that I can refer back to.