pythonstack Cookbook

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Supported Platforms

• Ubuntu 12.04
• Centos 6.5

Requirements

Cookbooks

• apache2
• application
• application_python
• apt
• chef-sugar
• database
• git
• memcached
• mongodb
• mysql-multi
• mysql
• newrelic
• openssl
• pg-multi
• platformstack
• python
• rackspace_gluster
• redis-multi
• stack_commons
• uwsgi
• yum
• yum-epel
• yum-ius

Recipes

apache

Creates sites coming from node['apache']['sites'] array
Creates monitoring check for each site if node[platformstack][cloud_monitoring] = enabled

nginx

Creates sites coming from node['nginx']['sites'] array
Creates monitoring check for each site if node[platformstack][cloud_monitoring] = enabled

application_python_nginx

Creates a configuration file for applications using variables for mysql_master node and rabbitmq node and placing this file in /etc/pythonstack.ini

format_disk

Includes stack_commons::format_disk which will format /dev/xvde1 (datadisk on Rackspace performance cloud nodes) this should not be called directly, if you want to format a disk for mysql usage use the recipe pythonstack::mysql_add_drive.

gluster

Includes stack_commons::gluster which sets up gluster nodes and replicas

memcache

Includes stack_commons::memcached which installs and sets up cloud monitoring of memcached

mongodb_standalone

Includes stack_commons::mongodb_standalone which sets up a standalone mongo db instance

mysql_add_drive

Recipe will format /dev/xvde1 (datadisk on Rackspace performance cloud nodes) and will prepare it for the mysql datadir

mysql_base

Includes recipe stack_commons::mysql_base to build a default standalone MySQL server.
Creates mysql-monitor template if node[platformstack][cloud_monitoring] = enabled
Creates an iptables rule for application_python nodes in order to connect to this one.

mysql_master

Includes stack_commons::mysql_master to build out a MySQL master server.
creates databases and associated database user per vhost

mysql_slave

Includes stack_commons::mysql_master to build out a MySQL slave server.

mysql_holland

Includes stack_commons::mysql_holland which doe the following:
Installs needed packages (holland and holland-mysqldump)
Verifies if this server is a slave or standalone
Setup a cronjob based on holland attributes

postgresql_base

Includes stack_commons::postgresql_base to setup a standalone postgresql server.
Sets up default IP tables rule to allow access on ['postgresql']['port']

postgresql_master

Includes stack_commons::postgresql_master to setup postgresql master server.

postgresql_slave

Includes stack_commons::postgresql_slave to setup postgresql slave server.

redis_base

Includes stack_commons::redis_base to setup a standalone redis service.

redis_master

Includes stack_commons::redis_master to setup a master redis node

redis_sentinel

Includes stack_commons::redis_sentinel to deploy redis-multi::sentinel

redis_single

Includes stack_commons::redis_single to deploy stack_commons::redis_base and redis-multi::single recipes

redis_slave

Includes stack_commons::redis_slave to deploy stack_commons::redis_base and redis-multi::slave

newrelic

Includes stack_commons::newrelic to install Newrelic if node['newrelic']['license'] set with license key

rabbitmq

Includes stack_commons::rabbitmq to installs Rabbitmq service

varnish

Includes stack_commons::varnish to installs and sets up Varnish.
Cloud monitoring enabled by default for thsi service.

Data_Bag

No Data_Bag configured for this cookbook

Attributes

defaults

• default['pythonstack']['newrelic']['application_monitoring'] = ''
  • controls if we allow newrelic to to do application monitoring
  • is set to 'true' in the newrelic recipe
• default['pythonstack']['webserver'] = 'apache'
  • sets the webserver want to use
  • you can set this to anything, but for actually running a webserver we only support nginx and apache
  • you can set this to something like 'not_a_webserver' and then use that namespace if you still want to deploy your application
• default['pythonstack']['ini']['cookbook'] = 'pythonstack'
  • sets where the /etc/phpstack.ini template is sourced from
• default['pythonstack']['mysql']['databases'] = {}
  • contains a list of databases to set up (along with users / passwords)
• default['pythonstack']['apache']['sites'] = {}
  • contains a list of ports and vhosts to set up for apache
• default['pythonstack']['nginx']['sites'] = {}
  • contains a list of ports and vhosts to set up for nginx
• default['pythonstack']['varish']['backend_nodes'] = {}
  • contains a list of varnish nodes
• default['pythonstack']['webserver_deployment']['enabled'] = true
  • allows apache and/or nginx recipes to run
• default['pythonstack']['code-deployment']['enabled'] = true
  • allows code deployment to run
• default['pythonstack']['db-autocreate']['enabled'] = true
  • controls database autocreation for each site / port combination globally
• default['pythonstack']['varnish']['multi'] = true
  • controls deployment of varnish multi-node setup

demo

contains attributes that used in a demo site, useful as an example of what to set to deploy a site

monitoring

controls how cloud_monitoring is used within pythonstack

nginx

controls setting within nginx configuration (ports, init scripts, etc)

backups

controls the use of rackspace_cloudbackups on pythonstack

Usage

https://github.com/rackspace-cookbooks/pythonstack/blob/master/USAGE.md

Contributing

https://github.com/rackspace-cookbooks/contributing/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

Authors

Authors:: Rackspace DevOps (devops@rackspace.com)