Hypertable Cookbook

This is a beta cookbook not indented to be used in production.

Opscode Chef cookbook for Hypertable.

This cookbook helps build a hypertable cluster.

Installation

1. Create roles:

• hypertable_admin
• hypertable_hyperspace
• hypertable_master
• hypertable_slave
• hypertable_thriftbroker_additional

1. Assign the roles to the nodes.
2. Set an admin node using hypertable::admin recipe.
3. Add hypertable recipe to the nodes run list.

Recipes

hypertable Provisions hypertable and executes the recipes defined by role in the node. (i.e a node with 'hypertable_master' will include 'hypertable::master')

hypertable::admin Installs Capistrano

hypertable::master Includes hypertable::monitoring

hypertable::monitoring Installs required modules for monitoring

Requirements

• SSH root access between nodes for Capistrano operations.

TODO

• Fine tune iptables rules.
• More DRY.
• Support other OSes: Fedora, Redhat, CentOS, Debian, OSX.

Contribute

Feel free to fork https://github.com/llonchj/cookbook_hypertable and pull request your modifications.

License and Authors

Authors: Jordi Llonch llonchj@gmail.com