Push Jobs API

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The Push Jobs API is used to create jobs and retrieve status using Chef Push Jobs, a tool that pushes jobs against a set of nodes in the organization. All requests are signed using the Chef Infra Server API and the validation key on the workstation from which the requests are made.

Endpoints

Each authentication request must include /organizations/organization_name/pushy/ as part of the name for the endpoint. For example: /organizations/organization_name/pushy/jobs/ID or /organizations/organization_name/pushy/node_states.

Note

The easiest way to send commands to the Chef Infra Server from your workstation is to use the knife exec subcommand. Here is an example of making a basic knife exec command against a RESTful JSON API.

knife exec -E 'api.get("/organizations/ORG_NAME/pushy/jobs/JOB_ID")'

For some Push Jobs API endpoints, you need to specify certain headers. To do that you simply pass a hash into the command.

knife exec -E 'api.get("/organizations/ORG_NAME/pushy/jobs/JOB_ID/output/NODE_NAME/stdout", RAW, {"Accept" => "application/event-stream"})'

where RAW is a boolean indicating whether you want the raw body returned, or JSON inflated. For Push Jobs API endpoints, we recommend false.

See knife exec for detailed information on usage.

connect/NODE_NAME

The /organizations/ORG_NAME/pushy/node_states/NODE_NAME endpoint has the following methods: GET.

GET

The GET method is used to get the status (up or down) for an individual node.

This method has no parameters.

Request

GET /organizations/ORG_NAME/pushy/node_states/NODE_NAME

Response

The response is similar to:

{
  "node_name": "FIONA",
  "status": "down",
  "updated_at": "Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:17:56 GMT"
}

where updated_at shows the date and time at which a node’s status last changed.

Response Code	Description
`200`	OK. The request was successful.
`400`	Bad request. The contents of the request are not formatted correctly.
`401`	Unauthorized. The user or client who made the request could not be authenticated. Verify the user/client name, and that the correct key was used to sign the request.
`403`	Forbidden. The user who made the request is not authorized to perform the action.
`404`	Not found. The requested object does not exist.

jobs

The /organizations/ORG_NAME/pushy/jobs endpoint has the following methods: GET and POST.

GET

The GET method is used to get a list of jobs.

This method has no parameters.

Request

GET /organizations/ORG_NAME/pushy/jobs

Response

The response is similar to:

{
  "aaaaaaaaaaaa25fd67fa8715fd547d3d",
  "aaaaaaaaaaaa6af7b14dd8a025777cf0"
}

Response Code	Description
`200`	OK. The request was successful.
`400`	Bad request. The contents of the request are not formatted correctly.
`401`	Unauthorized. The user or client who made the request could not be authenticated. Verify the user/client name, and that the correct key was used to sign the request.
`403`	Forbidden. The user who made the request is not authorized to perform the action.
`404`	Not found. The requested object does not exist.

POST

The POST method is used to start a job.

This method has no parameters.

Request

POST /organizations/ORG_NAME/pushy/jobs

with a request body similar to:

{
  "command": "bash $PUSHY_JOB_FILE",
  "run_timeout": 300,
  "nodes": ["NODE1", "NODE2", "NODE3", "NODE4", "NODE5", "NODE6"],
  "quorum":
  "user": "rebecca",
  "dir": "/home/rebecca",
  "env": {
    "FOO": "bears"
  },
  "file": "raw:#!/bin/bash\necho \"Hello, I am $USER and I like $FOO\""
  "capture_output": true
}

where:

command is the command to be executed during the run.
run_timeout is the number of seconds to wait for the run to complete.
nodes is the list of node names you wish to run the job on.
quorum is the number of nodes from nodes that must acknowledge the request in order for the job to run.
user is the user you wish to run the job as on the node.
dir is the directory you wish to run the job from on the node.
env is a JSON object of key-value pairs to assign to the environment.
file is a string that will be stored as a file on each node, with the path provided to the command as an environment variable.

Note

The string has a required prefix of raw: or base64:, indicating the encoding (if any) of the contents. The path to this file will be made available via the CHEF_PUSH_JOB_FILE environment variable.
capture_output is a boolean indicating whether to capture the STDOUT and STDERR for this job. Capture is enabled on a per-job basis, meaning that it will affect all nodes that run the job. It is not possible to enable capture on a per-node basis.

Response

The response is similar to:

{
  "id": "aaaaaaaaaaaa25fd67fa8715fd547d3d"
}

Response Code	Description
`201`	Created. The object was created.
`400`	Bad request. The contents of the request are not formatted correctly.
`401`	Unauthorized. The user or client who made the request could not be authenticated. Verify the user/client name, and that the correct key was used to sign the request.
`403`	Forbidden. The user who made the request is not authorized to perform the action.
`404`	Not found. The requested object does not exist.

jobs/ID

The /organizations/ORG_NAME/pushy/jobs/ID endpoint has the following methods: GET.

GET

The GET method is used to get the status of an individual job, including node state (running, complete, crashed).

This method accepts one optional query parameter: ?include_file. If set to true, then the file_specified attributed will be omitted from GET requests and the file attribute will be included with the contents of the file prefixed with raw: or base64:.

Request

GET /organizations/ORG_NAME/pushy/jobs/ID

Response

The response will return something similar to:

{
  "id": "aaaaaaaaaaaa25fd67fa8715fd547d3d",
  "command": "chef-client",
  "run_timeout": 300,
  "status": "running",
  "created_at": "Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:01:02 GMT",
  "updated_at": "Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:17:56 GMT",
  "nodes": {
    "running": ["NODE1", "NODE5"],
    "complete": ["NODE2", "NODE3", "NODE4"],
    "crashed": ["NODE6"]
  },
  "user": "rebecca",
  "dir": "/home/rebecca",
  "env": {},
  "file_specified": false,
  "capture_output": true
}

where:

command is the command that is being run.
run_timeout is the number of seconds to wait for the run to complete.
status is one of the following: aborted (the job was aborted), complete (the job completed; see nodes for individual node status), quorum_failed (the command was not run on any nodes), running (the command is running), timed_out (the command timed out), and voting (waiting for nodes; quorum not yet met).
created_at is the date and time at which the job started running
updated_at is the date and time at which the job entered its present status
nodes is one of the following: aborted (node ran command, stopped before completion), complete (node ran command to completion), crashed (node went down after command started running), nacked (node was busy), new (node has not accepted or rejected command), ready (node has accepted command, command has not started running), running (node has accepted command, command is running), and unavailable (node went down before command started).
user is the user you wish to run the job as on the node.
dir is the directory you wish to run the job from on the node.
file_specified is a boolean indicated whether or not a file was passed in when the job was created.
capture_output is a boolean indicating whether the STDOUT and STDERR is being capture for this job. If this value is false, it is omitted from the output.

Request with ``?include_file`` parameter

GET /organizations/ORG_NAME/pushy/jobs/ID?include_file=true

Response

The response will return something similar to:

{
  "id": "aaaaaaaaaaaa25fd67fa8715fd547d3d",
  "command": "bash $CHEF_PUSH_JOB_FILE",
  "run_timeout": 300,
  "status": "running",
  "created_at": "Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:01:02 GMT",
  "updated_at": "Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:17:56 GMT",
  "nodes": {
    "complete": ["NODE1", "NODE2", "NODE3"],
  },
  "user": "rebecca",
  "dir": "/home/rebecca",
  "env": {
    "FOO": "bears"
  },
  "file": "raw:#!/bin/bash\necho \"Hi! I'm $USER and I like $FOO"
  "capture_output": true
}

where:

env is a JSON object of key-value pairs to assign to the environment.
file is the contents of the file that was passed in on job creation.

Response Code	Description
`200`	OK. The request was successful.
`400`	Bad request. The contents of the request are not formatted correctly.
`401`	Unauthorized. The user or client who made the request could not be authenticated. Verify the user/client name, and that the correct key was used to sign the request.
`403`	Forbidden. The user who made the request is not authorized to perform the action.
`404`	Not found. The requested object does not exist.

jobs/ID/output/NODE_NAME/CHANNEL

It is possible to capture the output of commands invoked by Push Jobs, both STDOUT and STDERR, by providing the capture_output=true option when creating a job.

If capture is enabled, then the client will capture both the stdout and the stderr channels of the command. The channel output will be sent back regardless of whether the command succeeded or failed. It will be sent in raw form, including any terminating whitespace. If the command produced no output, then the value will be an empty string.

The two channels are treated as a pair – for a given <job, node>, either both will appear, or neither will appear.

The output is not streamed to the server as it is produced. Therefore, the output data for a given node will not be available until the run on that node is complete.

GET

The GET method is used to get output from a channel (STDOUT or STDERR) for an individual job.

This method has no parameters.

The Accept header for this request must be application/octet-stream.

Request

Accept: application/octet-stream
GET /organizations/ORG_NAME/pushy/jobs/ID/output/NODE_NAME/stdout

Response

The response will return something similar to:

Starting Chef Client, version 12.11.18

...

Converging 23 resources

Running handlers:
Running handlers complete
Chef client finished, 23/187 resources updated in 15 seconds

Request

Accept: application/octet-stream
GET /organizations/ORG_NAME/pushy/jobs/ID/output/NODE_NAME/stderr

Response*

The response will return something similar to:

bash: no such file or directory: /usr/local/run.sh

Response Code	Description
`200`	OK. The request was successful.
`400`	Bad request. The contents of the request are not formatted correctly.
`401`	Unauthorized. The user or client who made the request could not be authenticated. Verify the user/client name, and that the correct key was used to sign the request.
`403`	Forbidden. The user who made the request is not authorized to perform the action.
`404`	Not found. The requested object does not exist.

jobs_status_feed

The /organizations/ORG_NAME/pushy/jobs_status_feed endpoint has the following methods: GET

GET

This endpoint opens a Server-Sent-Events (SSE) feed for job starts and completions within the entire organization.

This method has no parameters.

The Accept header for this request must be application/event-stream.

As specified in the SSE protocol, you may request all events since a particular ID by including the optional Last-Event-ID Header. If this header is not included, no events will be produced until the next activity in the organization produces an event. If the Last-Event-ID header is passed but not recognized, it is assumed that the ID has already expired, and the feed will produce the events as far back as are recorded, proceeded by a synthetic start_of_history. The expiration time of organization events is 60 seconds (configurable).

Request

Accept: text/event-stream
Last-Event-ID: dcd37f50-2d77-4761-895b-33134dbf87d1
GET /organizations/ORG_NAME/pushy/jobs_status_feed

Response

The response will return something similar to:

event: start
id: dcd37f50-2d77-4761-895b-33134dbf87d1
data: {"timestamp":"2014-07-10 05:10:40.995958Z","job":"B","command":"chef-client","run_timeout":300,"user":"rebecca","quorum":2,"node_count":2}

event: job_complete
id: dcd37f50-2d77-4761-895b-33134dbf87d2
data: {"timestamp":"2014-07-10 05:15:48.995958Z","job":"A","status":"success"}

event: start
id: dcd37f50-2d77-4761-895b-33134dbf87d3
data: {"timestamp":"2014-07-10 05:17:40.995958Z","job":"C","command":"cat /etc/passwd","run_timeout":300,"user":"charles","quorum":2,"node_count":2}

event: job_complete
id: dcd37f50-2d77-4761-895b-33134dbf87d4
data: {"timestamp":"2014-07-10 05:17:41.995958Z","job":"C","status":"success"}

event: job_complete
id: dcd37f50-2d77-4761-895b-33134dbf87d5
data: {"timestamp":"2014-07-10 05:20:48.995958Z","job":"B","status":"success"}

Response Code	Description
`200`	OK. The request was successful.
`204`	No Content. Do not reconnect.
`400`	Bad request. The contents of the request are not formatted correctly.
`401`	Unauthorized. The user or client who made the request could not be authenticated. Verify the user/client name, and that the correct key was used to sign the request.
`403`	Forbidden. The user who made the request is not authorized to perform the action.
`404`	Not found. The requested object does not exist.

jobs_status_feed/JOBID

The /organizations/ORG_NAME/pushy/jobs_status_feed/JOBID endpoint has the following methods: GET

GET

This endpoint opens a Server-Sent-Events (SSE) feed with the Push Jobs server.

This method has no parameters.

The Accept header for this request must be application/event-stream.

As specified in the SSE protocol, you may request all events since a particular ID by including the optional Last-Event-ID Header. If the ID is omitted, or not recognized, the stream will start from the beginning of the job.

Completed Jobs

In the job feed, for a brief period after a job completes, the event stream will remain available. The request will behave as normal, which means the client will see the stream of events from the beginning of the job (or if specified, the Last-Event-ID), through to the job completion, and then the connection will be immediately closed by the server. The amount of time before it completes is configurable, but defaults to 5 seconds.

If a request is made for the feed after the waiting period, then the request will result in a single event, a “summary” event, which contains the same data as requesting a named-job resource. In this case, any Last-Event-ID will be ignored.

Request

Accept: text/event-stream
GET /organizations/ORG_NAME/pushy/jobs_status_feed/JOBID

Response

The response will return something similar to:

event: start
id: dcd37f50-2d77-4761-895b-33134dbf87d1
data: {"timestamp":"2014-07-10 05:17:40.995958Z","command":"ls /etc/chef","run_timeout":300,"user":"rebecca","quorum":2,"node_count":2}

event: quorum_vote
id: dcd37f50-2d77-4761-895b-33134dbf87d2
data: {"timestamp":"2014-07-10 05:17:41.995958Z","node":"NODE1","status":"success"}

event: quorum_vote
id: dcd37f50-2d77-4761-895b-33134dbf87d3
timestamp:
data: {"timestamp":"2014-07-10 05:17:42.995958Z","node":"NODE2","status":"success"}

event: quorum_succeeded
id: dcd37f50-2d77-4761-895b-33134dbf87d4
data: {"timestamp":"2014-07-10 05:17:43.995958Z"}

event: run_start
id: dcd37f50-2d77-4761-895b-33134dbf87d5
data: {"timestamp":"2014-07-10 05:17:44.995958Z","node":"NODE1"}

event: run_start
id: dcd37f50-2d77-4761-895b-33134dbf87d6
data: {"timestamp":"2014-07-10 05:17:45.995958Z","node":"NODE2"}

event: run_complete
id: dcd37f50-2d77-4761-895b-33134dbf87d7
data: {"timestamp":"2014-07-10 05:17:46.995958Z","node":"NODE1","status":"success"}

event: run_complete
id: dcd37f50-2d77-4761-895b-33134dbf87d58
data: {"timestamp":"2014-07-10 05:17:47.995958Z","node":"NODE2","status":"success"}

event: job_complete
id: dcd37f50-2d77-4761-895b-33134dbf87d9
data": {"timestamp":"2014-07-10 05:17:48.995958Z","status":"complete"}

Response Code	Description
`200`	OK. The request was successful.
`204`	No Content. Do not reconnect.
`400`	Bad request. The contents of the request are not formatted correctly.
`401`	Unauthorized. The user or client who made the request could not be authenticated. Verify the user/client name, and that the correct key was used to sign the request.
`403`	Forbidden. The user who made the request is not authorized to perform the action.
`404`	Not found. The requested object does not exist.

node_states

The /organizations/ORG_NAME/pushy/node_states endpoint has the following methods: GET.

GET

The GET method is used to get a list of nodes and their status (up or down).

This method has no parameters.

Request

GET /organizations/ORG_NAME/pushy/node_states

Response

The response is similar to:

{
  {
    "node_name": "FARQUAD",
    "status": "up",
    "updated_at": "Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:17:56 GMT"
  }
  {
    "node_name": "DONKEY",
    "status": "up",
    "updated_at": "Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:17:56 GMT"
  }
  {
    "node_name": "FIONA",
    "status": "down",
    "updated_at": "Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:17:56 GMT"
  }
}

The following values are possible: up or down.

Response Code	Description
`200`	OK. The request was successful.
`400`	Bad request. The contents of the request are not formatted correctly.
`401`	Unauthorized. The user or client who made the request could not be authenticated. Verify the user/client name, and that the correct key was used to sign the request.
`403`	Forbidden. The user who made the request is not authorized to perform the action.
`404`	Not found. The requested object does not exist.

node_states/NODE_NAME

The /organizations/ORG_NAME/pushy/node_states/NODE_NAME endpoint has the following methods: GET.

GET

The GET method is used to get the status (up or down) for an individual node.

This method has no parameters.

Request

GET /organizations/ORG_NAME/pushy/node_states/NODE_NAME

Response

The response is similar to:

{
  "node_name": "FIONA",
  "status": "down",
  "updated_at": "Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:17:56 GMT"
}

where updated_at shows the date and time at which a node’s status last changed.

Response Code	Description
`200`	OK. The request was successful.
`400`	Bad request. The contents of the request are not formatted correctly.
`401`	Unauthorized. The user or client who made the request could not be authenticated. Verify the user/client name, and that the correct key was used to sign the request.
`403`	Forbidden. The user who made the request is not authorized to perform the action.
`404`	Not found. The requested object does not exist.

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