How would you install a python module with chef?

Question

We're using EngineYard which has Python installed by default. But when we enabled SSL we received the following error message from our logentries chef recipe.

"WARNING: The "ssl" module is not present. Using unreliable workaround, host identity cannot be verified. Please install "ssl" module or newer version of Python (2.6) if possible."

I'm looking for a way to install the SSL module with chef recipe but I simply don't have enough experience. Could someone point me in the right direction?

Resources: Logentries chef recipe: https://github.com/logentries/le_chef

Logentries EY docs: https://logentries.com/doc/engineyard/

SSL Module: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ssl/

Answer 1

There now appears to be a solution with better community support (based on the fact that it is documented on the opscode website).

You might try:

include_recipe 'python'
python_pip 'ssl'

As documented: here or here

Answer 2

I just wrote a recipe for this, and now am able to run the latest Logentries client on EngineYard. Here you go:

file_dir = "/mnt/src/python-ssl"
file_name = "ssl-1.15.tar.gz"
file_path = File.join(file_dir,file_name)
uncompressed_file_dir = File.join(file_dir, file_name.split(".tar.gz").first)

directory file_dir do
  owner "deploy"
  group "deploy"
  mode "0755"
  recursive true
  action :create
end

remote_file file_path do
  source "http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/ssl/ssl-1.15.tar.gz"
  mode "0644"
  not_if { File.exists?(file_path) }
end

execute "gunzip ssl" do
  command "gunzip -c #{file_name} | tar xf -"
  cwd file_dir
  not_if { File.exists?(uncompressed_file_dir) }
end

installed_file_path = File.join(uncompressed_file_dir, "installed")

execute "install python ssl module" do
  command "python setup.py install"
  cwd uncompressed_file_dir
  not_if { File.exists?(installed_file_path) }
end

execute "touch #{installed_file_path}" do
  action :run
end