Problem starting docker bamboo-agent with DC bamboo server

[William McKeon]

Hi all,

I'm running the data-center versions of bamboo-server (6.9.1) and bamboo-agent (6.9.1).  I've been through the documentation and I have the helm charts setup correctly as far as I can tell on both the server and agent side.  However, when I try to start the bamboo agent, the bamboo-agent crashes immediately and the following message is the only line in the agent logs: "Please run the Docker image with Bamboo URL as the first argument".  The bamboo server is defined in the agent's helm chart, so I am confused on where to go from here.  I haven't had much luck finding others with this problem.  Any thoughts?

[Nicolas Grossi · Accepted solution]

@William McKeon Welcome! You might take a look at the following thread: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Bamboo-questions/Trying-to-implement-Bamboo-Agent-running-on-docker-container/qaq-p/1222470

Nicolas

[William McKeon]

@Nicolas Grossi   Thanks.  Took a look at that page.  That prompted some thoughts and I have some more information:

I am using the latest version (1.11.0) of the helm charts from here:  https://github.com/atlassian/data-center-helm-charts/releases.

When I try to deploy the images via helm, I get the messaged from above.  When I deploy with kubecltl run and specify the BAMBOO_SERVER as the argument, then the agent is able to start.  I first executed the kubectl run with the local cluster dns name and got failure in name resolution.  I then tried the IP address and the bamboo-agent then connected, but ran into another error.  However, our goal is to deploy this using helm so I feel that I can at least say now that helm isn't correctly starting the image.  I'm currently looking at how helm passes in arguments to the image when its is attempting to deploy/start the image. 

[Eduardo Alvarenga]

Hello @William McKeon

Try using an updated Bamboo version from 8.0 and onwards. Helm charts were released after 6.9.1 was available, and the current docker container bootstrap instructions are designed to interact with recent Bamboo releases and may not work with older versions.

Bamboo 6.9.1 has reached its End-of-life. Atlassian does not support instances on versions that have reached their End of Life. The only exception is for assistance related to upgrading from your EOL version to a supported version.

Sincerely,

Eduardo Alvarenga
Atlassian Support APAC

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[William McKeon]

@Eduardo Alvarenga @Nicolas Grossi Thanks for the help.  Really appreciate it.  Marking as accepted.