Gary Sieling

Installing CouchDB on a VirtualBox instance with Chef and Vagrant

This assumes you’ve already installed Virtualbox and configured a base VM.

mkdir cookbooks
cd cookbooks
git clone https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/apt
git clone https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/erlang.git
git clone https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/couchdb.git

cd ..
mkdir vm
cd vm
vagrant init
vi Vagrantfile

Insert the following lines before the last line “end”, like so:

 config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
     chef.cookbooks_path = "../cookbooks"
     chef.add_recipe("apt")
     chef.add_recipe("couchdb")
 end

Exit vi (:q) and run the following:

vagrant up

After several minutes your virtual environment will be built. Once this is done, you can SSH into the machine (password is vagrant):

ssh vagrant@localhost -p 2222

Then see that the couchdb service is installed:

ls /etc/init.d/couch*

The reason you need apt is to force “apt-update” prior to running the later commands. Erlang is a pre-requisite for couchdb, but Chef will just pick that up and install it. If you run into any errors, you may need to change or download the base box.

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