On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Toby Corkindale <toby.corkind...@strategicdata.com.au> wrote: > Riak (and Riak CS and Stanchion) all assume some level of competence at > Erlang. I found Riak was tricky to get running, but had picked up enough > knowledge of Erlang's strange syntax and foibles from working with RabbitMQ. > > Even then, some things weren't obvious, as you'll see from my questions to > the list a few months ago. > > I do wonder if it would be useful for Basho to publish some Chef and Puppet > manifests that do the work of setting up a small cluster? >
For reference, below are links to the Chef cookbooks and Puppet modules for Riak: https://github.com/basho/riak-chef-cookbook https://github.com/basho/riak-cs-chef-cookbook https://github.com/basho/puppet-riak They don't spin up a cluster on their own. To do something like that, at least with CS, I'd recommend this Vagrant project: https://github.com/basho/vagrant-riak-cs-cluster It also may be worth noting that this project spins up Riak CS Control as well. > > However I believe the best thing would be if Riak shipped with good defaults > that get people up and running quickly. > So, for example, instead of requiring the node name to be redefined in the > vm.args, you'd just have it default to using your FQDN to construct a name. > > Stop using Erlang's inpenetrable syntax for the config files, and use > something people are familiar with, including the UNIX-style of loading > snippets out of /etc/riak.d/*.conf or similar. Enable Riak CS to add a > snippet that gets itself loaded, rather than requiring moderate amounts of > edits to be performed manually, including adding paths to the Erlang library > search path. > > > But.. that's just my thoughts, and I'm far from an expert. Maybe once the > core of Riak has been improved even further and bugs squashed, there'll be > time for the team to look at improving the initial setup experience. In the > meantime I've found this list to be very helpful in getting a working system > up and running. > > -Toby > > > On 02/07/13 17:36, Guy Morton wrote: >> >> Hi Chris >> >> The video didn't include any information that I hadn't figured out. My >> problem is that I can't get it to work. I get the nice riak-cs admin page in >> my browser on port 8000 but it shows no users (perhaps reasonable because I >> only have succeeded in creating a single user so far - the admin user) and >> the create user function fails (with the error previously mentioned). >> >> I've sent you my config files, though since then I've tried what feels >> like a thousand variants all to no avail. If the config is wrong enough >> riak-cs won't start, and when it does I can't do a thing. >> >> I'm sure Riak cs is a great product, once it's set up! I just don't seem >> to be able to get over that hurdle. >> >> -- >> Guy Morton >> Web Development Manager >> Brüel & Kjær EMS >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: Christopher Meiklejohn [cmeiklej...@basho.com] >> Sent: Monday, 1 July 2013 4:26 PM >> To: Guy Morton >> Cc: riak-users@lists.basho.com >> Subject: Re: Riak-CS-Control >> >> Hi Guy, >> >> Here is a good video introduction to configuring Riak CS Control: >> >> http://basho.com/getting-started-with-riak-cs-control/ >> >> Let me know if you run into any specific issues and I'm happy to help. >> I'm also lurking in the #riak room on Freenode (nick: cmeiklejohn) if you >> need further help (any of us should be able to!) >> >> - Chris >> >> -- >> Christopher Meiklejohn >> Software Engineer >> Basho Technologies, Inc. >> >> >> >> On Monday, July 1, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Guy Morton wrote: >> >>> Also, I just found this - riak-cs-control... None of the install/config >>> documents I saw previously mentioned it, or that it should be configured, or >>> how. It seems to control the web interface referred to in my last email... >>> >>> Where is the most up-to-date info about Riak CS and how to set it up? I >>> am trying to set it up on Debian squeeze and I'm still floundering. I seem >>> very close to having it working, but not quite. It's a bit frustrating! Is >>> it just me, or is it complex to get working? >>> >>> -- >>> Guy Morton >>> Web Development Manager >>> Brüel & Kjær EMS >>> This e-mail is confidential and may be read, copied and used only by the >>> intended recipient. If you have received it in error, please contact the >>> sender immediately by return e-mail. Please then delete the e-mail and do >>> not disclose its contents to any other person. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> riak-users mailing list >>> riak-users@lists.basho.com (mailto:riak-users@lists.basho.com) >>> http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com >> >> >> >> >> >> This e-mail is confidential and may be read, copied and used only by the >> intended recipient. If you have received it in error, please contact the >> sender immediately by return e-mail. Please then delete the e-mail and do >> not disclose its contents to any other person. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> riak-users mailing list >> riak-users@lists.basho.com >> http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com >> > > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
