[chef] Re: Re: Mongo ReplicaSets

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We've forked edelight's mongodb cookbook a year or two ago and it worked great at that time for auto-configuring replicasets. Sometimes it would break in rare corner cases, but 95% of the time it would work. One thing that didn't work so well was removing and re-adding a replicaset member.

We've recently moved to Chef 11, and had to update to latest version of the cookbook. It's a lot better at configuring replicasets, IMO - even changes to replicasets are handled smoothly. We haven't tried sharding in production yet, only in development, but I've not heard any complaints from devs about the cookbook, which must mean that it works.

I would suggest creating a helper cookbook for any custom behavior rather than changing the community cookbook.. You don't want to come back a year later and realize that your version is hopelessly out of date.

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 7:10 AM, Brad Knowles < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

On May 13, 2014, at 9:10 AM, Stewart, Curtis < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

> Has anyone had any luck setting up a MongoDB replicaset with the mongodb cookbook (https://github.com/edelight/chef-mongodb)?

At a previous employer of mine, we took this cookbook and massaged it to the point where it could auto-create replicasets with sharding and the whole shebang.  Our code definitely isn't the greatest, and I wasn't the one responsible for writing the hard bits, but we felt it was an improvement.  Before I left, I was able to convince them to let me upload a copy of our work to my repo at <https://github.com/bknowles/mongodb>.

> Looks like a good quality cookbook, but I was hoping for some feedback before jumping into it.

Dunno what has happened to the edelight cookbook since I last saw it, but my understanding is that not much has been done.  My previous employer and I contributed our changes back to them, but last I heard those changes were never accepted -- that's why we chose to post our own version.

It would be great if someone could take the latest from the edelight cookbook, the work done at my previous employer, and help combine those with whatever else is out there.  Thanks for volunteering!  ;-)

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