Installing Riak CS With Chef
If you manage your infrastructure with Chef, the open-source configuration management framework, you’ll be happy to know that we maintain a cookbook for installing Riak CS with Chef.
Getting Started
The Riak CS cookbook can be used (alongside the Riak cookbook), by adding the following recipes to your runlist:
run_list(
"recipe[riak-cs::package]",
"recipe[riak]",
"recipe[riak-cs]",
"recipe[riak-cs::stanchion]"
)
The default settings will cause Riak and Riak CS to be installed and configured via Riak-maintained package repositories.
Package Installation
There are two options for installation: package and enterprise_package.
package is the default— it installs Riak CS open source—and is the recommended option for Red Hat- and Debian-based operating systems. For source installations of Riak, Erlang/OTP R15B01 and above is recommended.
Enterprise Installation
To install Riak CS Enterprise, populate node['riak_cs']['package']['enterprise_key'] with a Riak-provided key for
the release.
Riak Enterprise installations managed through the cookbook must be installed via a package.
Basic Configuration
All the configuration options exist within the node['riak_cs']['config']
namespace. In cases where an Erlang data type is necessary, use the appropriate methods from the [erlang_template_helper](https://github.com/basho/erlang_template_helper).
Networking
Riak CS and Stanchion communicate with Riak through the Protocol Buffers interface. By default, Riak listens for Protocol Buffers connections on port
8087:
# Riak CS
default['riak_cs']['config']['riak_cs']['riak_ip'] = node['ipaddress'].to_erl_string
default['riak_cs']['config']['riak_cs']['riak_pb_port'] = 8087
# Stanchion
default['stanchion']['config']['stanchion']['riak_ip'] = node['ipaddress'].to_erl_string
default['stanchion']['config']['stanchion']['riak_pb_port'] = 8087
At the same time, Riak listens for HTTP requests on port 8080 and Stanchion
on port 8085:
# Riak CS
default['riak_cs']['config']['riak_cs']['cs_ip'] = node['ipaddress'].to_erl_string
default['riak_cs']['config']['riak_cs']['cs_port'] = 8080
# Stanchion
default['stanchion']['config']['stanchion']['stanchion_ip'] = node['ipaddress'].to_erl_string
default['stanchion']['config']['stanchion']['stanchion_port'] = 8085
Credentials
Both Riak CS and Stanchion require administrative user credentials. The two credentials are admin_key and admin_secret:
# Riak CS
default['riak_cs']['config']['riak_cs']['admin_key'] = "admin-key".to_erl_string
default['riak_cs']['config']['riak_cs']['admin_secret'] = "admin-secret".to_erl_string
# Stanchion
default['stanchion']['config']['stanchion']['admin_key'] = "admin-key".to_erl_string
default['stanchion']['config']['stanchion']['admin_secret'] = "admin-secret".to_erl_string
Webmachine
Webmachine is used to service HTTP requests in Riak CS. Its server_name and
Lager log_handlers can be configured with the following:
default['riak_cs']['config']['webmachine']['server_name'] = "Riak CS".to_erl_string
default['riak_cs']['config']['webmachine']['log_handlers']['webmachine_log_handler'] = ["/var/log/riak-cs".to_erl_string].to_erl_list
default['riak_cs']['config']['webmachine']['log_handlers']['riak_cs_access_log_handler'] = [].to_erl_list
Erlang
A number of Erlang parameters may be configured through the cookbook. The node
-name and -setcookie are most important for creating multi-node clusters.
The rest of the parameters are primarily for performance tuning, with kernel polling and SMP enabled by default. A few examples follow:
# Riak CS
default['riak_cs']['args']['-name'] = "riak-cs@#{node['fqdn']}"
default['riak_cs']['args']['-setcookie'] = "riak-cs"
default['riak_cs']['args']['+K'] = true
default['riak_cs']['args']['+A'] = 64
default['riak_cs']['args']['+W'] = "w"
default['riak_cs']['args']['-env']['ERL_MAX_PORTS'] = 4096
default['riak_cs']['args']['-env']['ERL_FULLSWEEP_AFTER'] = 0
default['riak_cs']['args']['-env']['ERL_CRASH_DUMP'] = "/var/log/riak/erl_crash.dump"
# Stanchion
default['stanchion']['args']['-name'] = "stanchion@#{node['ipaddress']}"
default['stanchion']['args']['-setcookie'] = "stanchion"
default['stanchion']['args']['+K'] = true
default['stanchion']['args']['+A'] = 64
default['stanchion']['args']['+W'] = "w"
default['stanchion']['args']['-env']['ERL_MAX_PORTS'] = 4096
default['stanchion']['args']['-env']['ERL_FULLSWEEP_AFTER'] = 0
default['stanchion']['args']['-env']['ERL_CRASH_DUMP'] = "/var/log/stanchion/erl_crash.dump"
Storage Backends
Riak CS uses a specific combination of storage backends. Bitcask is used to
store blocks and LevelDB to store manifests. The riak_cs_kv_multi_backend must be specified in the Riak configuration file for Riak CS to work:
default['riak']['config']['riak_kv']['storage_backend'] = "riak_cs_kv_multi_backend"
The Riak cookbook takes care of populating all of the other default required
for the riak_cs_kv_multi_backend to be configured correctly.
Lager
Lager is the logging framework used within Riak CS and Stanchion. It can also be used with Erlang/OTP.
# Riak CS
error_log = ["/var/log/riak-cs/error.log".to_erl_string,"error",10485760,"$D0".to_erl_string,5].to_erl_tuple
info_log = ["/var/log/riak-cs/console.log".to_erl_string,"info",10485760,"$D0".to_erl_string,5].to_erl_tuple
default['riak_cs']['config']['lager']['handlers']['lager_file_backend'] = [error_log, info_log]
default['riak_cs']['config']['lager']['crash_log'] = "/var/log/riak-cs/crash.log".to_erl_string
default['riak_cs']['config']['lager']['crash_log_msg_size'] = 65536
default['riak_cs']['config']['lager']['crash_log_size'] = 10485760
default['riak_cs']['config']['lager']['crash_log_date'] = "$D0".to_erl_string
default['riak_cs']['config']['lager']['crash_log_count'] = 5
default['riak_cs']['config']['lager']['error_logger_redirect'] = true
# Stanchion
error_log = ["/var/log/stanchion/error.log".to_erl_string,"error",10485760,"$D0".to_erl_string,5].to_erl_tuple
info_log = ["/var/log/stanchion/console.log".to_erl_string,"info",10485760,"$D0".to_erl_string,5].to_erl_tuple
default['stanchion']['config']['lager']['handlers']['lager_file_backend'] = [error_log, info_log]
default['stanchion']['config']['lager']['crash_log'] = "/var/log/stanchion/crash.log".to_erl_string
default['stanchion']['config']['lager']['crash_log_msg_size'] = 65536
default['stanchion']['config']['lager']['crash_log_size'] = 10485760
default['stanchion']['config']['lager']['crash_log_date'] = "$D0".to_erl_string
default['stanchion']['config']['lager']['crash_log_count'] = 5
default['stanchion']['config']['lager']['error_logger_redirect'] = true
Additional Resources
More information related to cluster configuration and building development environments is available in our documentation.