Description

Installs zNcrypt and prerequistes

Requirements

Platform

• Debian, Ubuntu
• CentOS, Red Hat, Fedora

Tested on:

• Ubuntu 10.04, 11.10
• CentOS 6.2

Cookbooks

Requires apt and yum cookbooks to add gpg keys and gazzang repo.
Requires openssl cookbook to generate a strong passhrase

git clone git://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/apt
knife cookbook upload apt

git clone git://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/yum
knife cookbook upload yum

git clone git://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/openssl
knife cookbook upload openssl

The cassandra recipe depends on Java, by default is OpenJDK

git clone git://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/java
knife cookbook upload java

Requires a C compiler for Dynamic Kernel Module compilation.

Attributes

See attributes/default.rb for default values

• node["zncrypt"]["zncrypt_mount"] - mount point for zncrypt, default /var/lib/ezncrypt/ezncrypted.
• node["zncrypt"]["zncrypt_storage"] - directory to store encrypted data, default /var/lib/ezncrypt/storage.

Usage

include_recipe "zncrypt::default" - installs, configures and activates zncrypt
include_recipe "zncrypt::zncrypt" - installs only zncrypt
include_recipe "zncrypt::cassandra" -installs cassandra and configures zncrypt

This will install zNcrypt, dkms and the required kernel headers.

Data Bag

Add a databag for each server with a Gazzang license and activation code

"data_bag": "license_pool",
"name": "data_bag_item_license_pool",
"json_class": "Chef::DataBagItem",
"chef_type": "data_bag_item",
"raw_data": {
"passphrase": "yourpassphrase",
"id": "cassandra",
"activation_code": "NNNNNNNNNNNN",
"passphrase2": "yourpassphrase",
"license": "XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX"
}

License and Author

Author:: Eddie Garcia (eddie.garcia@gazzang.com)

Copyright:: 2012 Gazzang, 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

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.