Use upstart script to create Jenkins workspace on /mnt

playbooks/roles/jenkins_worker/tasks/system.yml

@@ -9,19 +9,24 @@
   shell: touch {{ jenkins_user_home }}/.bashrc
   sudo_user: "{{ jenkins_user }}"
 
-- name: jenkins | Create directory for builds
-  file: path={{ jenkins_workspace }}
-    owner={{ jenkins_user }} group={{ jenkins_group }}
-    state=directory
 
-- name: jenkins | Create .ssh directory
-  file: path={{ jenkins_user_home }}/.ssh state=directory
-        owner={{ jenkins_user }} group={{ jenkins_group }}
+# We need the upstart script to create the build directory
+# so that (a) it will be run when a new instance is created
+# on the current EBS, and (b) it will be run as root.
+- name: jenkins | Install upstart script to create build dir
+  template: src=jenkins_workspace.conf.j2
+    dest=/etc/init/jenkins_workspace.conf
+    owner=root group=root
+
 
 # Because of a bug in the latest release of the EC2 plugin
 # we need to use a key generated by Amazon (not imported)
 # To satisfy this, we allow users to log in as Jenkins
 # using the same keypair the instance was started with.
+- name: jenkins | Create .ssh directory
+  file: path={{ jenkins_user_home }}/.ssh state=directory
+        owner={{ jenkins_user }} group={{ jenkins_group }}
+
 - name: jenkins | Copy ssh keys for jenkins
   command: cp /home/ubuntu/.ssh/authorized_keys /home/{{ jenkins_user }}/.ssh/authorized_keys
 
@@ -49,6 +54,7 @@
     - unzip
     - xml-twig-tools
 
+
 # Configure Mongo to use /mnt so we don't
 # run out of disk space
 - name: jenkins | Stop mongo service

playbooks/roles/jenkins_worker/templates/jenkins_workspace.conf.j2

+# Create directory for Jenkins jobs
+
+start on runlevel [2345]
+
+task
+script
+    mkdir -p {{ jenkins_workspace }}
+    chown {{ jenkins_user }}:{{ jenkins_group }} {{ jenkins_workspace }}
+    chmod 700 {{ jenkins_workspace }}
+end script

playbooks/roles/jenkins_worker/vars/main.yml

 ---
-jenkins_workspace: /opt/jenkins
+jenkins_workspace: /mnt/jenkins
 jenkins_phantomjs_url: https://phantomjs.googlecode.com/files/phantomjs-1.9.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
 jenkins_phantomjs_archive: phantomjs-1.9.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
 jenkins_phantomjs_folder: phantomjs-1.9.1-linux-x86_64