Media Chef Cookbook

This cookbook will setup the media devices on a server which will ideally act as a file/media server. Initially it will be used to mount external devices and add then as NFS shares.

Requirements

This cookbook requires devices to be preformatted to a file system. It will not format the devices. It will simply mount the specified devices for using as a file/media server.

For cookbook dependencies/requirements see metadata.rb.

Usage

For setting up the media devices

Prepare the node['media']['devices'] node attribute and use the media::default or media::mount_devices recipe. There is no need for specifying the file system types. It is automatically detected and used for mounting the devices. Devices can also be specified by uuid and label.

# Prepare the media devices
node.set['media']['devices'] = {
  '/dev/sdb1' => '/mnt/videos',
  '/dev/disk/by-uuid/C398398878' => '/mnt/movies',
  '/dev/disk/by-label/songs' => '/mnt/songs'
}

# Include the recipe
include_recipe "media::default"

Pro Tip

It is recommended that you set up the devices by UUID because the device location cannot always be the same and can lead to confusion. The UUID and label can be found using the blkid command on Unix. This command will give the label, uuid, and the file system type.

Example:

$ sudo blkid /dev/sdb1
$ /dev/sdb1: LABEL="movies" UUID="C60475200468787521" TYPE="ntfs"

For setting up the NFS shares

By default the mounted devices mount points are used for setting up the NFS shares. It can be overridden by setting the node['media']['nfs']['shares'] node attribute. Then run the media::setup_nfs_shares recipe.

Attributes

• node['media']['devices'] - The media devices to mount
• node['media']['user'] - The user to be used for media mount points
• node['media']['group'] - The group to be used for media mount points
• node['media']['nfs']['shares'] - The NFS shares to setup
• node['media']['nfs']['network'] - The NFS network address to share with
• node['media']['nfs']['writable'] - The writeable property of NFS share
• node['media']['nfs']['sync'] - The sync property of NFS share
• node['media']['nfs']['options'] - The options to be used for the NFS share

Recipes

media::default

This is the default recipe. It just runs the media::mount_devices recipe.

media::mount_devices

This recipe mounts the specified media devices in the mount points given. See Usage for more details.

media::setup_nfs_shares

This recipe installs the requied packages for NFS server and sets up the nfs shares.

media::setup_minidlna

This recipe sets up the minidlna media server. Example for setting this up:

node.set['minidlna']['video_directories'] = [
  '/media/storage/movies',
  '/media/storage/shows'
]
node.set['minidlna']['friendly_name'] = "Kannan's minidlna"
include_recipe "media::setup_minidlna"

Author

Author:: Kannan Manickam (me@arangamani.net)