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.

	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

Install Riak from source.

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

Install 4 Riak nodes to #devrel.
```
make all
make devrel DEVNODES=4
cd dev
```

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

Start each node.

dev1/bin/riak start
dev2/bin/riak start
dev3/bin/riak start
dev4/bin/riak start

Check to determine that the riak services are running.
```
ps aux | grep beam
```

Add each node to a single node.

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

Set and get the cluster plan.
```
dev2/bin/riak-admin cluster plan
```
NOTE: This plan can be run from any of the instances.
Last, commit the cluster plan.
```
dev2/bin/riak-admin cluster commit
```
NOTE: The commit can also be run from any of the instances.

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