Sensu Go Ruby Runtime Assets

This project provides Sensu Go Assets containing portable Ruby runtimes (for various platforms), based on the excellent ruby-install project by postmodern. In practice, this Ruby runtime asset should allow Ruby-based scripts (e.g. Sensu Community plugins) to be packaged as separate assets containing Ruby scripts and any corresponding gem dependencies. In this way, a single shared Ruby runtime may be delivered to systems running the new Sensu Go Agent via the new Sensu's new Asset framework (i.e. avoiding solutions that would require a Ruby runtime to be redundantly packaged with every ruby-based plugin).

This same project may be used to build Sensu Assets for Ruby-based plugins via bundler or other similar tools. We'll share more information on building Ruby-based assets with third-party gem depdencies using Bundler soon; in the interim, please review the instructions below for more information on how to get started with this project.

Instructions

Please note the following instructions:

1. Use a Docker container to install ruby-install, build a Ruby, and generate a local_build Sensu Go Asset.

   $ docker build --build-arg "RUBY_VERSION=2.4.4" -t sensu-ruby-runtime:2.4.4-alpine -f Dockerfile.alpine .
   $ docker build --build-arg "RUBY_VERSION=2.4.4" -t sensu-ruby-runtime:2.4.4-debian -f Dockerfile.debian .
   

2. Extract your new sensu-ruby asset, and get the SHA-512 hash for your Sensu asset!

   $ mkdir assets
   $ docker run -v "$PWD/assets:/assets" sensu-ruby-runtime:2.4.4-debian cp /assets/sensu-ruby-runtime_2.4.4_debian_linux_amd64.tar.gz /assets/
   $ shasum -a 512 assets/sensu-ruby-runtime_2.4.4_debian_linux_amd64.tar.gz
   

3. Put that asset somewhere that your Sensu agent can fetch it. Perhaps add it to the Bonsai asset index!

4. Create an asset resource in Sensu Go.

   First, create a configuration file called sensu-ruby-runtime-2.4.4-debian.json with the following contents:

   {
     "type": "Asset",
     "api_version": "core/v2",
     "metadata": {
       "name": "sensu-ruby-runtime-2.4.4-debian",
       "namespace": "default",
       "labels": {},
       "annotations": {}
     },
     "spec": {
       "url": "http://your-asset-server-here/assets/sensu-ruby-runtime-2.4.4-debian.tar.gz",
       "sha512": "4f926bf4328fbad2b9cac873d117f771914f4b837c9c85584c38ccf55a3ef3c2e8d154812246e5dda4a87450576b2c58ad9ab40c9e2edc31b288d066b195b21b",
       "filters": [
         "entity.system.os == 'linux'",
         "entity.system.arch == 'amd64'",
         "entity.system.platform == 'debian'"
       ]
     }
   }
   

   Then create the asset via:

   $ sensuctl create -f sensu-ruby-runtime-2.4.4-debian.json
   

5. Create a second asset containing a Ruby script.

   To run a simple test using the Ruby runtime asset, create another asset called helloworld-v0.1.tar.gz with a simple ruby script at bin/helloworld.rb; e.g.:

   #!/usr/bin/env ruby
   
   require "date"
   
   puts "Hello world! The time is now #{Time.now()}"
   

   NOTE: this is a simple "hello world" example, but it shows that we have support for basic stlib gems!

   Compress this file into a g-zipped tarball and register this asset with Sensu, and then you're all ready to run some tests!

6. Create a check resource in Sensu 2.0.

   First, create a configuration file called helloworld.json with the following contents:

   {
     "type": "CheckConfig",
     "api_version": "core/v2",
     "metadata": {
       "name": "helloworld",
       "namespace": "default",
       "labels": {},
       "annotations": {}
     },
     "spec": {
       "command": "helloworld.rb",
       "runtime_assets": ["sensu-ruby-runtime-2.4.4-debian", "helloworld-v0.1"],
       "publish": true,
       "interval": 10,
       "subscriptions": ["docker"]
     }
   }
   

   Then create the asset via:

   $ sensuctl create -f helloworld.json
   

   At this point, the sensu-backend should begin publishing your check request. Any sensu-agent member of the "docker" subscription should receive the request, fetch the Ruby runtime and helloworld assets, unpack them, and successfully execute the helloworld.rb command by resolving the Ruby shebang (#!/usr/bin/env ruby) to the Ruby runtime on the Sensu agent $PATH.:wq