riak

Description

Riak is an open source, distributed database that
focuses on high availability, horizontal scalability, and predictable
latency.

Requirements

Platforms

• Ubuntu 14.04
• Ubuntu 12.04
• Debian 7.2.0
• CentOS 7.0
• CentOS 6.5
• CentOS 5.10
• Fedora 19

Cookbooks

• apt
• build-essential
• erlang
• git
• java
• sysctl
• ulimit
• yum
• yum-epel

Attributes

• node['riak']['install_method'] - Method to install Riak (package, enterprise_package, source, source, custom_repository)
• node['riak']['platform_bin_dir'] - Base directory for binaries.
• node['riak']['platform_data_dir'] - Base directory for data files.
• node['riak']['platform_etc_dir'] - Base directory for configuration files.
• node['riak']['platform_log_dir'] - Base directory for log files.
• node['riak']['platform_lib_dir'] - Base directory for libraries.
• node['riak']['patches'] - List of patches to apply by placing in the basho-patches directory.
• node['riak']['config']['log.console'] - Where to emit the default log messages (off, file, console, both).
• node['riak']['config']['log']['console']['level'] - Severity level of the console log (ebug, info, warning, error).
• node['riak']['config']['log']['console']['file'] - When node['riak']['config']['log.console'] is set to file or both, the file where console messages will be logged.
• node['riak']['config']['log']['error']['file'] - The file where error messages will be logged.
• node['riak']['config']['log']['syslog'] - Enables log output to syslog (on, off).
• node['riak']['config']['log.crash'] - Whether to enable the crash log (on, off).
• node['riak']['config']['log']['crash']['file'] - The file where its messages will be written.
• node['riak']['config']['log']['crash']['maximum_message_size'] - Maximum size (in bytes) of individual messages in the crash log.
• node['riak']['config']['log']['crash']['size'] - Maximum size of the crash log (in bytes), before it is rotated.
• node['riak']['config']['log']['crash.rotation'] - The schedule on which to rotate the crash log. See here for details.
• node['riak']['config']['log']['crash']['rotation']['keep'] - The number of rotated crash logs to keep.
• node['riak']['config']['nodename'] - Name of the Erlang node.
• node['riak']['config']['distributed_cookie'] - Cookie for distributed node communication.
• node['riak']['config']['erlang']['async_threads'] - Number of threads in async thread pool (0-1024).
• node['riak']['config']['erlang']['max_ports'] - Number of concurrent ports/sockets (1024-134217727).
• node['riak']['config']['ring_size'] - Number of partitions in the cluster (must be a power of 2).
• node['riak']['config']['transfer_limit'] - Number of concurrent node-to- node transfers allowed.
• node['riak']['config']['ring']['state_dir'] - Location of ring state.
• node['riak']['config']['ssl']['certfile'] - Default certificate location for HTTPS.
• node['riak']['config']['ssl']['keyfile'] - Default key location for HTTPS.
• node['riak']['config']['ssl']['cacertfile'] - Default signing authority for HTTPS.
• node['riak']['config']['dtrace'] - Enable DTrace (on, off).
• node['riak']['config']['strong_consistency'] - Enable consensus subsystem (on, off).
• node['riak']['config']['listener']['http']['internal'] - IP address and TCP port that the Riak HTTP interface will bind to.
• node['riak']['config']['listener']['protobuf']['internal'] - IP address and TCP port that the Riak Protocol Buffers interface will bind to.
• node['riak']['config']['protobuf']['backlog'] - Maximum length of pending connections queue.
• node['riak']['config']['listener']['https']['internal'] - IP address and TCP port that the Riak HTTPS interface will bind to.
• node['riak']['config']['anti_entropy'] - Strategy of repairing out-of-sync keys (active, passive, active-debug).
• node['riak']['config']['storage_backend'] - Storage backend for Riak's key-value and secondary index data (bitcask, leveldb, memory, multi).
• node['riak']['config']['object']['format'] - Binary representation of a Riak value stored on disk (0, 1).
• node['riak']['config']['metadata_cache_size'] - Size of the metadata cache for each vnode.
• node['riak']['config']['object']['size']['warning_threshold'] - Reading or writing objects larger than this size will write a warning in the logs.
• node['riak']['config']['object']['size']['maximum'] - Writing an object larger than this will send a failure to the client.
• node['riak']['config']['object']['siblings']['warning_threshold'] - Writing an object with more than this number of siblings will generate a warning in the logs.
• node['riak']['config']['object']['siblings']['maximum'] - Writing an object with more than this number of siblings will send a failure to the client.
• node['riak']['config']['bitcask']['data_root'] - A path under which Bitcask data files will be stored.
• node['riak']['config']['bitcask']['io_mode'] - How Bitcask writes to disk (erlang, nif).
• node['riak']['config']['riak_control.top_level'] - Enable administrative UI (on, off).
• node['riak']['config']['riak_control']['auth']['mode'] - Authentication mode used for access to the administrative panel.
• node['riak']['config']['riak_control']['auth']['user']['user']['password']
  • List of usernames and passwords for access to Riak Control.
• node['riak']['config']['leveldb']['data_root'] - A path under which LevelDB data files will be stored.
• node['riak']['config']['leveldb']['maximum_memory']['percent'] - Percentage of total server memory to assign to LevelDB.
• node['riak']['config']['leveldb']['compaction']['trigger']['tombstone_count']
  • Controls when background LevelDB compaction initiates.
• node['riak']['config']['jmx'] - Enable JMX monitoring output (on, off).
• node['riak']['config']['search.top_level'] - Enable Riak Search (on, off).
• node['riak']['config']['search']['solr']['start_timeout'] - How long Riak will wait for Solr to start.
• node['riak']['config']['search']['solr']['port'] - Port number Solr will bind to.
• node['riak']['config']['search']['solr']['jmx_port'] - Port number which Solr JMX binds to.
• node['riak']['config']['search']['solr']['jvm_options'] - Options to pass to the Solr JVM.
• node['riak']['config']['search']['anti_entropy']['data_dir'] - Path where Riak Search's Active Anti-Entropy data files will reside.
• node['riak']['config']['search']['root_dir'] - Path for Riak Search index data.

Package

• node['riak']['package']['enterprise_key'] - Riak Enterprise key.
• node['riak']['package']['name'] - Name of the Riak package to install.
• node['riak']['package']['url'] - Base path for downloading Riak packages.
• node['riak']['package']['version']['major'] - Major version number.
• node['riak']['package']['version']['minor'] - Minor version number.
• node['riak']['package']['version']['incremental'] - Incremental version number.
• node['riak']['package']['version']['build'] - Build version number.
• node['riak']['package']['local']['filename'] - File name for local Riak
• node['riak']['package']['local']['checksum'] - Checksum for local Riak package.

Source

• node['riak']['source']['url'] - Base path for downloading Riak source tarballs.
• node['riak']['source']['version']['major']- Major version number.
• node['riak']['source']['version']['minor'] - Minor version number.
• node['riak']['source']['version']['incremental'] - Incremental version number.
• node['riak']['source']['prefix'] - Installation prefix for source install.
• node['riak']['source']['checksum'] - Checksum for source tarball.

ulimit

• node['riak']['limits']['nofile'] - File descriptor limit for user running the Riak service

sysctl

• node['riak']['sysctl']['vm']['swappiness']
• node['riak']['sysctl']['net']['core']['somaxconn']
• node['riak']['sysctl']['net']['ipv4']['tcp_max_syn_backlog']
• node['riak']['sysctl']['net']['ipv4']['tcp_sack']
• node['riak']['sysctl']['net']['ipv4']['tcp_window_scaling']
• node['riak']['sysctl']['net']['ipv4']['tcp_fin_timeout']
• node['riak']['sysctl']['net']['ipv4']['tcp_keepalive_intvl']
• node['riak']['sysctl']['net']['ipv4']['tcp_tw_reuse']
• node['riak']['sysctl']['net']['ipv4']['tcp_moderate_rcvbuf']

Usage

Attributes

You may notice that some attribute names contain .top_level. This is to aid
rendering special configuration settings that have other settings nested
beneath them.

A quick example:

search is a setting, but it also has search.solr.start_timeout and
search.solr.port beneath it:

default['riak']['config']['search.top_level'] = 'off'
default['riak']['config']['search']['solr']['start_timeout'] = '30s'
default['riak']['config']['search']['solr']['port'] = 8093

These attributes render as:

search = off
search.solr.start_timeout = 30s
search.solr.port = 8093

Installation Methods

There are several installation methods for Riak supported by this cookbook.
All require that the node's run_list contain the default riak recipe.

For more precise examples, please see the .kitchen.yml file.

Package

This is the default method of installation. Ensure that
node['riak']['install_method'] is set to package.

Enterprise Package

For Riak Enterprise users, installing the Enterprise package requires setting
two attributes:

default['riak']['package']['enterprise_key'] = '*******'
default['riak']['install_method'] = 'enterprise_package'

Custom Package

If you want to install a custom package of Riak (that isn't available in your
operating system's package repository), ensure that the following attributes
are set appropriately:

default['riak']['install_method'] = 'package'
default['riak']['package']['local']['filename'] = 'riak_2.0.2-1_amd64.deb'
default['riak']['package']['local']['checksum'] = 'db290d17208861b2eb8694d2eb3d1dc8e7ad280edf577fac8bd355446ca6b85a'
default['riak']['package']['local']['url'] = 'http://s3.amazonaws.com/downloads.basho.com/riak/2.0/2.0.2/ubuntu/precise'

Custom Repository

If you have a package repository setup on your operating system (that isn't
Basho's) and want to install Riak from there, ensure that
node['riak']['install_method'] is set to custom_repository.

Source

If you want to install Riak (and Erlang) from source, ensure that
node['riak']['install_method'] is set to source.

License and Author

• Author: Benjamin Black (b@b3k.us)
• Author: Sean Carey (sean@densone.com)
• Author: Hector Castro (hector@basho.com)
• Author: Sean Cribbs (sean@basho.com)
• Author: Seth Thomas (sthomas@basho.com

Copyright (c) 2014 Basho Technologies, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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