Vagrant Oracle JDK & RabbitMQ with plugins

Here’s a brief guide to configuring Vagrant to install JDK 1.7 from Oracle and to configure RabbitMQ with specified plugins. The JDK installation is simply a question of using the current Java cookbook, but specifying the location of the JDK archive (and, optionally, its checksum).

The RabbitMQ issue needed a bit of customisation of the cookbook. My update to the rabbitmq cookbook (https://github.com/janm399/rabbitmq, pull requested) adds the [:rabbitmq][:enabled_plugins] node (an array of strings), which enables the listed plugins.

Onwards to a typical Vagrantfile, then:

# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :
Vagrant::Config.run do |config|
  config.vm.box = "box"
  config.vm.boot_mode = :headless

  config.vm.forward_port 80,    8080

  config.vm.forward_port 55672, 55672

  config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
    chef.cookbooks_path = "cookbooks"

    chef.add_recipe "rabbitmq"
    chef.add_recipe "java"

    chef.json = {
        :rabbitmq => {
          :enabled_plugins => ["rabbitmq_management"]
        },
        :java => {
            :install_flavor => "oracle",
            :jdk_version => "7",
            :jdk => {
                :"7" => {
                    :x86_64 => {
                        :url => "http://host/jdk-7u4-linux-x64.tar.gz",
                        :checksum => "92f...0307c"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
  end

end

Notice the chef.json configuration, which specifies the list of RabbitMQ plugins (:rabbitmq => { :enabled_plugins => ["rabbitmq_management"] }) and the JDK download configuration. Even though you might download the JDK archive as .gz file, you will have to name it .tar.gz.