[chef] New Community Cookbook: MongoDB

[Miquel Torres < >]

Hi!

this week we are going to release a couple of Chef technologies
developed at edelight GmbH.

The first one is a new MongoDB cookbook, mostly implemented by my
colleague Markus Korn. The code can be found at our Github repository:
https://github.com/edelight/cookbooks/tree/master/mongodb

As there were no MongoDB cookbooks out there, we decided to invest in
a really capable one that could manage MongoDB instances in a variety
of configurations.

Instances can be started in a recipe by using the "mongodb_instance"
definition, and the cookbook itself provides the following recipes:
* default.rb (single node instance)
* configserver
* mongos
* replicaset
* shard.rb

We have put a tutorial on the wiki describing the setup of a full
sharded and replicated cluster:
https://github.com/edelight/cookbooks/wiki/MongoDB%3A-Replication%2BSharding

There are some things that could still be improved, but we are pretty
happy with it as-is.

Cheers!
Miquel Torres


PS: We are entering the Opscode Chef Cookbook Contest with this
cookbook btw. ;-)