Cloudant Cookbooks

• Used with Chef (http://www.opscode.com) to bootstrap bigcouch machines on Ubuntu
• These cookbooks depend on the Opscode runit and heartbeat cookbooks (which are included for convenience)

Assumptions

• You already have a working installation of chef (client or solo) to apply the cookbooks
• You are running Ubuntu (we use 10.04 LTS) or Centos/RHEL 5

Getting Started

Usage w/ Chef Solo

• Clone this repo to a machine

• Edit solo.rb to point to the cloned repo

• Run the following to install and configure bigcouch

  mkdir /tmp/chef-solo # or another path if you changed file_cache_path

  sudo chef-solo -c /path/to/solo.rb -j /path/to/bigcouch.json

Usage w/ Chef Client

• Upload the cookbooks in this repo to your Chef server using knife
• Add the cookbooks to your nodes

Caveats

• Redhat/Centos doesn't include an init script, we recommend using runit or daemontools. On Ubuntu it uses runit automatically.

• If installing the RPM packages on Redhat/Centos run the following to turn off signed package checking.

  sed -i 's/gpgcheck=1/gpgcheck=0/' /etc/yum.conf

Getting Help

• IRC: #cloudant on freenode