This is a better way of ensuring the post-installation user scripts run correctly. (#45) (#46)

Author: BillFarber

AWS-CloudFormation/cloudFormationTemplates/readyToGo.json

@@ -104,9 +104,10 @@
         ],
         "UserData"       : { "Fn::Base64" : { "Fn::Join" : ["", [
           "#!/bin/bash -xe\n",
-          "#sleep 30s\n",
-          "#sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade\n",
-          "#sudo apt -y install sysstat\n",
+          "while ! sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade\n",
+          "do\n    sleep 20\ndone\n",
+          "while ! sudo apt -y install sysstat\n",
+          "do\n    sleep 20\ndone\n",
           "sudo /opt/bitnami/kafka/bin/kafka-server-stop.sh ; sudo rm -rf /opt/bitnami/kafka/tmp/kafka-logs/* ; sudo rm -rf /opt/bitnami/kafka/logs/*\n",
           "sudo wget https://cf-templates-3tc878fhthic-us-east-1.s3.amazonaws.com/Kafka-Initialization/kafka-producer-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar -O /home/bitnami/kafka-producer-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar\n",
           "sudo chmod 644 /home/bitnami/kafka-producer-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar\n",
@@ -160,9 +161,10 @@
         ],
         "UserData"       : { "Fn::Base64" : { "Fn::Join" : ["", [
           "#!/bin/bash -xe\n",
-          "sleep 180s\n",
-          "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade\n",
-          "sudo apt -y install sysstat\n",
+          "while ! sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade\n",
+          "do\n    sleep 20\ndone\n",
+          "while ! sudo apt -y install sysstat\n",
+          "do\n    sleep 20\ndone\n",
           "sudo wget https://cf-templates-3tc878fhthic-us-east-1.s3.amazonaws.com/Kafka-Initialization/server.properties -O /opt/bitnami/kafka/config/server.properties\n",
           "sudo cp /opt/bitnami/kafka/logs/server.log /opt/bitnami/kafka/logs/server.log.bak\n",
           "sudo chown root:root /opt/bitnami/kafka/config/server.properties\n",
@@ -222,11 +224,13 @@
         ],
         "UserData"       : { "Fn::Base64" : { "Fn::Join" : ["", [
           "#!/bin/bash -xe\n",
-          "sleep 180s\n",
-          "sudo yum -y update\n",
+          "while ! sudo yum -y update\n",
+          "do\n    sleep 20\ndone\n",
+          "while ! sudo yum install sysstat\n",
+          "do\n    sleep 20\ndone\n",
           "sudo echo \"MARKLOGIC_EC2_HOST=0\" > /etc/marklogic.conf\n",
-          "sudo service MarkLogic start\n",
-          "sudo yum install sysstat\n",
+          "while ! sudo service MarkLogic start\n",
+          "do\n    sleep 20\ndone\n",
           "sleep 60s\n",
           "curl -X POST -d \"\" http://localhost:8001/admin/v1/init\n",
           "sleep 60s\n",