Failing to create vhost and users

[pvandervelde]

Issue: My cookbook installs RabbitMQ and the management console successfully. Additionally the recipe tries to create 2 vhosts and a user. The Chef run finishes successfully but once RabbitMQ is running the vhost and the user are nowhere to be found.

Version: 5.4.0
Recipe:

#
# INSTALL RABBITMQ
#

include_recipe 'rabbitmq::default'
include_recipe 'rabbitmq::mgmt_console'

service_name = 'rabbitmq-server'
#
# ALLOW RABBITMQ THROUGH THE FIREWALL
#

rabbitmq_http_port = node['rabbitmq']['http_port']
firewall_rule 'rabbitmq-http' do
  command :allow
  description 'Allow RabbitMQ HTTP traffic'
  dest_port rabbitmq_http_port
  direction :in
end

rabbitmq_amqp_port = node['rabbitmq']['amqp_port']
firewall_rule 'rabbitmq-amqp' do
  command :allow
  description 'Allow RabbitMQ AMQP traffic'
  dest_port rabbitmq_amqp_port
  direction :in
end

#
# PLUGINS
#

rabbitmq_plugin 'rabbitmq_auth_backend_ldap' do
  action :enable
end

#
# DEFAULT VHOSTS AND QUEUES
#

logs_vhost = 'logs'
rabbitmq_vhost logs_vhost do
  action :add
end

#
# CONNECT TO CONSUL
#

health_vhost = 'health'
rabbitmq_vhost health_vhost do
  action :add
end

rabbitmq_consul_test_user = 'consul'
rabbitmq_consul_test_password = 'c0nsul'
rabbitmq_user rabbitmq_consul_test_user do
  action :add
  password rabbitmq_consul_test_password
end

rabbitmq_user rabbitmq_consul_test_user do
  action :set_permissions
  permissions '.* .* .*'
  vhost [health_vhost]
end

Attributes:

default['rabbitmq']['version'] = '3.6.15'
default['rabbitmq']['amqp_port'] = 5672
default['rabbitmq']['http_port'] = 15_672

Chef log:

Recipe: rabbitmq::default
  * service[rabbitmq-server] action restart
    - restart service service[rabbitmq-server]
Recipe: rabbitmq::user_management
  * rabbitmq_user[guest] action add (up to date)
  * rabbitmq_user[guest] action set_tags
    * execute[rabbitmqctl set_user_tags guest ] action run
      - execute rabbitmqctl set_user_tags guest

  * rabbitmq_user[guest] action set_permissions (up to date)
Recipe: resource_queue::rabbitmq
  * firewall_rule[rabbitmq-http] action create

  * firewall_rule[rabbitmq-amqp] action create

  * rabbitmq_plugin[rabbitmq_auth_backend_ldap] action enable
    * execute[rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_auth_backend_ldap] action run
      - execute rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_auth_backend_ldap

  * rabbitmq_vhost[logs] action add
    * execute[rabbitmqctl add_vhost logs] action run
      - execute rabbitmqctl add_vhost logs

  * rabbitmq_vhost[health] action add
    * execute[rabbitmqctl add_vhost health] action run
      - execute rabbitmqctl add_vhost health

  * rabbitmq_user[consul] action add[2018-01-30T08:19:59+00:00] WARN: /tmp/packer-chef-solo/local-mode-cache/cache/cookbooks/rabbitmq/providers/user.rb:93:in `block (2 levels) in
    class_from_file': property password is declared in both execute[rabbitmqctl add_user consul] and #<#<Class:0x000000054d7d30>:0x000000033fd038>. Use new_resource.password instead. At /tmp/packer-ch
    ef-solo/local-mode-cache/cache/cookbooks/rabbitmq/providers/user.rb:93:in `block (2 levels) in class_from_file'

    * execute[rabbitmqctl add_user consul] action run
      - execute sensitive resource

  * rabbitmq_user[consul] action set_permissions
    * execute[rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p health consul ".*" ".*" ".*"] action run
      - execute rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p health consul ".*" ".*" ".*"

Other than including the default recipe and the mgmt_console recipe is there anything else that needs to be done in order to successfully create a vhost and a user?

[michaelklishin]

Thank you for your time.

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Thank you.

[michaelklishin]

See server logs and run convergence with Chef client log level set to debug. The resources in this cookbook may require a running node, which you may or may not have at a certain point during deployment. A more convenient way to pre-create vhosts, users, permissions and such is to import a definitions file (introduced in #472).

[michaelklishin]

Definitions export and import is documented in RabbitMQ guides.