cassandra chef cookbook

Installs and configures the Cassandra distributed storage system

Overview

Cassandra Cluster

Cookbook based on Benjamin Black's (b@b3k.us) -- original at http://github.com/b/cookbooks/tree/cassandra/cassandra/

Modified to use metachef discovery and options preparation.

Attributes

[:cassandra][:cluster_name] - Cassandra cluster name (default: "cluster_name")
- The name for the Cassandra cluster in which this node should participate. The default is 'Test Cluster'.
[:cassandra][:home_dir] - (default: "/usr/local/share/cassandra")
[:cassandra][:conf_dir] - (default: "/etc/cassandra")
[:cassandra][:commitlog_dir] - (default: "/mnt/cassandra/commitlog")
[:cassandra][:data_dirs] -
[:cassandra][:saved_caches_dir] - (default: "/var/lib/cassandra/saved_caches")
[:cassandra][:user] - (default: "cassandra")
[:cassandra][:listen_addr] - (default: "localhost")
[:cassandra][:seeds] -
[:cassandra][:rpc_addr] - (default: "localhost")
[:cassandra][:rpc_port] - (default: "9160")
[:cassandra][:storage_port] - (default: "7000")
[:cassandra][:jmx_dash_port] - (default: "12345")
[:cassandra][:mx4j_port] - (default: "8081")
[:cassandra][:mx4j_addr] - (default: "127.0.0.1")
[:cassandra][:release_url] - (default: ":apache_mirror:/cassandra/:version:/apache-cassandra-:version:-bin.tar.gz")
[:cassandra][:git_repo] - (default: "git://git.apache.org/cassandra.git")
[:cassandra][:git_revision] - (default: "cdd239dcf82ab52cb840e070fc01135efb512799")
[:cassandra][:jna_deb_amd64_url] - (default: "http://debian.riptano.com/maverick/pool/libjna-java_3.2.7-0~nmu.2_amd64.deb")
[:cassandra][:mx4j_url] - (default: "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mx4j/MX4J%20Binary/3.0.2/mx4j-3.0.2.zip?r=http%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fmx4j%2Ffiles%2F&ts=1303407638&use_mirror=iweb")
[:cassandra][:auto_bootstrap] - Cassandra automatic boostrap boolean (default: "false")
- Boolean indicating whether a node should automatically boostrap on startup.
[:cassandra][:keyspaces] - Cassandra keyspaces
- Hash of keyspace definitions.
[:cassandra][:authenticator] - Cassandra authenticator (default: "org.apache.cassandra.auth.AllowAllAuthenticator")
- The IAuthenticator to be used for access control.
[:cassandra][:partitioner] - (default: "org.apache.cassandra.dht.RandomPartitioner")
[:cassandra][:initial_token] -
[:cassandra][:rpc_timeout] - (default: "5000")
[:cassandra][:commitlog_rotation_threshold] - (default: "128")
[:cassandra][:thrift_framed_transport] - (default: "15")
[:cassandra][:disk_access_mode] - (default: "auto")
[:cassandra][:sliced_buffer_size] - (default: "64")
[:cassandra][:flush_data_buffer_size] - (default: "32")
[:cassandra][:flush_index_buffer_size] - (default: "8")
[:cassandra][:column_index_size] - (default: "64")
[:cassandra][:memtable_throughput] - (default: "64")
[:cassandra][:binary_memtable_throughput] - (default: "256")
[:cassandra][:memtable_ops] - (default: "0.3")
[:cassandra][:memtable_flush_after] - (default: "60")
[:cassandra][:concurrent_reads] - (default: "8")
[:cassandra][:concurrent_writes] - (default: "32")
[:cassandra][:commitlog_sync] - (default: "periodic")
[:cassandra][:commitlog_sync_period] - (default: "10000")
[:cassandra][:gc_grace] - (default: "864000")
[:cassandra][:authority] - (default: "org.apache.cassandra.auth.AllowAllAuthority")
[:cassandra][:hinted_handoff_enabled] - (default: "true")
[:cassandra][:max_hint_window_in_ms] - (default: "3600000")
[:cassandra][:hinted_handoff_delay_ms] - (default: "50")
[:cassandra][:endpoint_snitch] - (default: "org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleSnitch")
[:cassandra][:dynamic_snitch] - (default: "true")
[:cassandra][:java_heap_size_min] - (default: "128M")
[:cassandra][:java_heap_size_max] - (default: "1650M")
[:cassandra][:java_heap_size_eden] - (default: "1500M")
[:cassandra][:memtable_flush_writers] - (default: "1")
[:cassandra][:thrift_max_message_length] - (default: "16")
[:cassandra][:incremental_backups] -
[:cassandra][:snapshot_before_compaction] -
[:cassandra][:in_memory_compaction_limit] - (default: "64")
[:cassandra][:compaction_preheat_key_cache] - (default: "true")
[:cassandra][:flush_largest_memtables_at] - (default: "0.75")
[:cassandra][:reduce_cache_sizes_at] - (default: "0.85")
[:cassandra][:reduce_cache_capacity_to] - (default: "0.6")
[:cassandra][:rpc_timeout_in_ms] - (default: "10000")
[:cassandra][:rpc_keepalive] - (default: "false")
[:cassandra][:phi_convict_threshold] - (default: "8")
[:cassandra][:request_scheduler] - (default: "org.apache.cassandra.scheduler.NoScheduler")
[:cassandra][:throttle_limit] - (default: "80")
[:cassandra][:request_scheduler_id] - (default: "keyspace")
[:cassandra][:log_dir] - (default: "/var/log/cassandra")
[:cassandra][:lib_dir] - (default: "/var/lib/cassandra")
[:cassandra][:pid_dir] - (default: "/var/run/cassandra")
[:cassandra][:group] - (default: "nogroup")
[:cassandra][:version] - (default: "0.7.10")
[:cassandra][:mx4j_version] - (default: "3.0.2")
[:cassandra][:mx4j_release_url] - (default: "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mx4j/MX4J%20Binary/x.x/mx4j-x.x.zip?r=http%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fmx4j%2Ffiles%2F&ts=1303407638&use_mirror=iweb")
[:users][:cassandra][:uid] - (default: "330")
[:users][:cassandra][:gid] - (default: "330")

Recipes

authentication - Authentication
autoconf - Automatically configure nodes from chef-server information.
bintools - Bintools
client - Client
default - Base configuration for cassandra
ec2snitch - Automatically configure properties snitch for clusters on EC2.
install_from_git - Install From Git
install_from_package - Install From Package
install_from_release - Install From Release
iptables - Automatically configure iptables rules for cassandra.
jna_support - Jna Support
mx4j - Mx4j
server - Server ## Integration

Supports platforms: debian and ubuntu

Cookbook dependencies:
* java
* runit
* thrift
* volumes
* provides_service
* metachef
* iptables

License and Author

Author:: Benjamin Black (b@b3k.us)
Copyright:: 2011, Benjamin Black

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