An Ubuntu Riak #devrel

Setting up Riak to test out, prototype against, develop and use in a general way is extremely easy. Just setup a devrel on your local development machine. This is however limited to certain *nix based operating systems, so Windows as a dev platform is out – but not completely. Get a virtual machine running on Ubuntu, RHEL or some other Linux instance and you’re ready to go. What I’ve put together here is an example of getting a devrel up and running with an Ubuntu Virtual Machine.

Step 1: Get the basic reqs installed.

• Install Erlang R15B01.[sourcecode language=”bash”]
  sudo apt-get install build-essential libncurses5-dev openssl libssl-dev git
  wget http://erlang.org/download/otp_src_R15B01.tar.gz
  tar zxvf otp_src_R15B01.tar.gz
  cd otp_src_R15B01
  ./configure && make && sudo make install[/sourcecode]
• Install Riak from source.[sourcecode language=”bash”]
  curl -O http://downloads.basho.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/riak/1.3/1.3.1/riak-1.3.1.tar.gz
  tar zxvf riak-1.3.1.tar.gz
  cd riak-1.3.1
  make rel
  [/sourcecode]
• Install 4 Riak nodes to #devrel.[sourcecode language=”bash”]
  make all
  make devrel DEVNODES=4
  cd dev
  [/sourcecode]

Step 2: With each of the nodes, now join and build the Riak cluster.

• Start each node.[sourcecode language=”bash”]
  dev1/bin/riak start
  dev2/bin/riak start
  dev3/bin/riak start
  dev4/bin/riak start[/sourcecode]
• Check to determine that the riak services are running.[sourcecode language=”bash”]
  ps aux | grep beam[/sourcecode]
• Add each node to a single node.[sourcecode language=”bash”]
  dev2/bin/riak-admin cluster join dev1@127.0.0.1
  dev3/bin/riak-admin cluster join dev1@127.0.0.1
  dev4/bin/riak-admin cluster join dev1@127.0.0.1[/sourcecode]
• Set and get the cluster plan.[sourcecode language=”bash”]
  dev2/bin/riak-admin cluster plan[/sourcecode]

  NOTE: This plan can be run from any of the instances.

• Last, commit the cluster plan.[sourcecode language=”bash”]
  dev2/bin/riak-admin cluster commit[/sourcecode]

  NOTE: The commit can also be run from any of the instances.