Creating a Bamboo Agent wit Ansible

William Flow_lnlghv

Hi all

so I have an Ansible Playbook that:

1. Creates and Ubuntu EC2 on AWS

2. Then updates the EC2 and installs some packages and reboots

3. It then creates a Bamboo user and group and sets the password

4. It copies the Bamboo agent tar file sets its owner as Bamboo

5. I then run the installer and it approves the new agent via an API call

6. The script waits until the file bamboo-agent.cfg.xml is created

 

The problem is sometimes it happens meaning everything goes well and my new agent goes live on line or it just sits there then times out, I look at the logs and see that it is waiting to get approval 

INFO | jvm 2 | 2022/09/25 20:09:02 | * This agent requires manual approval.
INFO | jvm 2 | 2022/09/25 20:09:02 | * UUID: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

 

then I look at the Bamboo agents

x.x.x.227

xxxxxxxxx

Waiting

Approve access

x.x.x.227

xxxxxx

Approved

Revoke access | Edit IP address

 

so how can it be approved and still asking for approval? I need this to be able to setup and start the agent without errors, any help would be great

Eduardo Alvarenga

Hello @William Flow,

The Bamboo Agent jar installer will keep trying to connect to the Bamboo Server every 60s in case it is not approved. Perhaps you need to wait longer and double-check the UUID inserted on bamboo.cfg.xml and use it on the REST API agent approval request.

Alternatively, you can install the Agent using the install suffix, this will only create the necessary content but will not run any services. You can then generate a bamboo.cfg.xml from a template and assign it with a random UUID then start the Agent. This way you have control of the UUID and will be 100% sure of which agent needs to be approved.

• Additional remote agent options - Running the remote agent with different start-up commands 

Cheers,

Eduardo Alvarenga
Atlassian Support APAC

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