Development server

A collection of Chef recipes and a Vagrantfile, intended for the creation of a VirtualBox development server running all the services one would need in a "backend" server.

Usage

Install VirtualBox
Install Vagrant
Clone this repo and init submodules (git submodule update --init)
Start a server: run vagrant up at repo's root. This will fetch the default server image defined in Vagrantfile, start it and provision the services defined it in the file. The default image is Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) 64-bit. For more server images ("boxes"), see [http://www.vagrantbox.es/].

Done! you should be able to access the running server with vagrant ssh. The default IP address of the server is 10.10.10.10, accessible only from the host, so you can see the services installed there.

Details

Chef recipes

You'll find a collection of recipes here, none of which is originally "mine". I'll list the credits and links to the originals here.

Opscode recipes

I have linked the Opscode recipes as git submodules where possible:

java, Vagrantfile configures java7 from Oracle by default
runit, no configuration needed
memcached, no configuration needed

Test memcached in the server: telnet localhost 11211 and then stats. Quit by saying quit. For more info, see for example [http://lzone.de/articles/memcached.htm].

Customised recipes

Apache Kafka, redid this according to librato's recipe and Webtrend's recipe. Did not fork as they are much more confgurable (and complex), I just wanted Kafka & Zookeeper to work
Riak, fork of the Opscode hosted recipe. Modified so that the listen address is 0.0.0.0 (all interfaces). Without this modification Riak would listen to eth0 by default, whereas vagrant adds eth1 as the defined interface. I did not manage to set this with chef-solo json configuration, so it's hard-coded now.

Test Riak after installation, you should see empty buckets..

The Chef recipes are tested by me only in chef-solo mode with vagrant.

Vagrantfile

Simple really: it contains chef dna json for a chef-solo run, as well as networking setup for the server. By default, it points to a box named 'precise64', which can be found at the Vagrantup site.

It also contains a run list, which is used when provisioning the software with chef. Edit the run list to add/remove services that are deployed in the server.

We must use a 64 bit box as the Riak release is not available for the 32 bit Precise as a deb file.