Bamboo Ubuntu Install

Initial Notes

I have installed it on my laptop so I have skipped some steps like create a specific bamboo user, etc.

Create Database

If you don’t have a database you can follow the guidelines described in requirements/postgres or requirements/sql-server

Remember to create an application database and user. For example: bamboodb and bamboouser

Create Installation Directory

cd /opt
mkdir atlassian
cd atlassian
wget https://www.atlassian.com/software/bamboo/downloads/binary/atlassian-bamboo-5.10.3.tar.gz
tar zxvf atlassian-bamboo-5.10.3.tar.gz
cd ../..
ln -s atlassian/atlassian-bamboo-5.10.3 bamboo
chown [user] atlassian

Set Bamboo Home

vi atlassian-bamboo/WEB-INF/classes/bamboo-init.properties

Uncommment bamboo.home with a value like: bamboo.home=/opt/atlassian/app-data/bamboo-home

Create service file

As root, create the file /etc/init.d/bamboo with the following content:

#!/bin/sh
set -e
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: bamboo
# Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs $network $time
# Required-Stop: $local_fs $remote_fs $network $time
# Should-Start: $syslog
# Should-Stop: $syslog
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Atlassian Bamboo Server
### END INIT INFO
# INIT Script
######################################

# Define some variables
# Name of app ( bamboo, Confluence, etc )
APP=bamboo
# Name of the user to run as
USER=mario.moreno
# Location of application's bin directory
BASE=/opt/bamboo

case "$1" in
# Start command
start)
    echo "Starting $APP"
    /bin/su - $USER -c "export BAMBOO_HOME=${BAMBOO_HOME}; $BASE/bin/startup.sh &> /dev/null"
    ;;
# Stop command
stop)
    echo "Stopping $APP"
    /bin/su - $USER -c "$BASE/bin/shutdown.sh &> /dev/null"
    echo "$APP stopped successfully"
    ;;
# Restart command
restart)
        $0 stop
        sleep 5
        $0 start
        ;;
*)
    echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/$APP {start|restart|stop}"
    exit 1
    ;;
esac

exit 0

Add access rights:

chmod \+x /etc/init.d/bamboo

Add symlinks

sudo update-rc.d bamboo defaults

Troubleshooting

You can check the logs in [bamboo-install-dir]/logs
Test if the user have correct access rights to folders
Run bamboo manually [bamboo-install-dir]bin/start-bamboo.sh

Configure Instance

Navigate to http://localhost:8085

Configure with an external database: jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/bamboodb