rs-storage cookbook

Provides recipes for managing volumes on a Server in a RightScale supported cloud which include:

• Creation of single and multi-stripe volumes
• Taking backups of volumes

Github Repository: https://github.com/rightscale-cookbooks/rs-storage

Requirements

• Requires Chef 11 or higher
• Platform
  • Ubuntu 12.04
• Cookbooks
  • chef_handler

Usage

Creating a new volume

To create a new volume, run the rs-storage::volume recipe with the following attributes set:

• node['rs-storage']['device']['nickname'] - the nickname of the volume

This will create a new volume, attach it to the server, format it with the filesystem specified, and mount it on the location specified.

Attributes

• node['rs-storage']['device']['nickname'] - The nickname for the device or the logical volume comprising multiple of devices. Default is 'data_storage'.

Recipes

rs-storage::default

Simply includes the rightscale_volume::default and rightscale_backup::default recipes to meet the requirements of using the resources in these cookbooks.

Author

Author:: RightScale Inc ([email protected])