README.md



cfe-mariadb-cookbook

This installs MariaDB 10.0 by default and initiates databases and users. It can also install a script that performs a backup of all those databases into a designated S3 bucket. 

The server is assumed to be using an IAM role with S3 bucket read/write access, instead of a physical credentials file.

When encryption is enabled for DB backups, the private and public keys are shared across all databases in the db_map attribute. Encryption is enabled separately for each individual database (see Usage below).

Note that enabling encryption can cause the backup process to take a very long time depending on how large the database is. That said, it is still very much recommended to do so.


Supported Platforms

Ubuntu 14.04


Attributes


    Key
    Type
    Description
    Default
  
  
    ['cfe-mariadb']['db_map']
    Hash
    A hash/array of hashes that enumerate the DB names, users, passwords, etc. of all databases to be set up. Please see the default attributes file for examples.
    {}
  
  
    ['cfe-mariadb']['replication']
    Boolean
    Whether replication is enabled or not
    false
  
  
    ['cfe-mariadb']['s3_region']
    String
    AWS S3 region
    'us-east-1'
  
  
    ['cfe-mariadb']['s3_bucket']
    String
    AWS S3 bucket name
    'example-bucket'
  
  
    ['cfe-mariadb']['backup']['cron']['sched']
    String
    The backup cronjob schedule value in crontab syntax.
    '0 0 * * *'
  
  
    ['cfe-mariadb']['reload']['aws_access_key_id']
    String
    If not using EC2 roles, enter AWS creds here
    nil
  
  
    ['cfe-mariadb']['reload']['aws_secret_access_key']
    String
    If not using EC2 roles, enter AWS creds here
    nil
  
  
    ['cfe-mariadb']['reload']['false']
    Boolean
    If the recipe 'reload_from_s3' is run, reload the databases even if it has already been done by a previous run of this recipe.
    false
  
  
    ['cfe-mariadb']['encrypt']['priv_key']
    String
    Contents of the private key file used by recipe `reload_from_s3` if encrypted backups are used.
    nil
  
  
    ['cfe-mariadb']['encrypt']['pub_key']
    String
    Contents of the public key file used by the backup script to encrypt files before uploading to the S3 bucket.
    nil
  

Usage


node['cfe-mariadb']['db_map']


Example config of a single database:

{
  'example_db_name' => {
    :db_user       => 'example_db_username',
    :db_pass       => 'supersecret_pass',
    :bak_filename  => 'example_db_name.sql',
    :bak_maxcopies => 30
    :bak_encrypted => false,
    :char_set      => 'utf8',
    :collate       => 'utf8_general_ci'
  }
}


The properties :bak_encrypted, :char_set, and :collate are all optional and their default values are as shown above.


cfe-mariadb::default

Include cfe-mariadb in your node's run_list:

{
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[cfe-mariadb]"
  ]
}


cfe-mariadb::backup2s3

This will install the backup script and also enable a cronjob to regularly run that script.

{
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[cfe-mariadb]",
    "recipe[cfe-mariadb::backup2s3]"
  ]
}


cfe-mariadb::reload_from_s3

Kind of the reverse of backup2s3. Download a gzip of a MySQL dump file from an S3 bucket, then load it up into a database. Do this for every database given in node['cfe-mariadb']['db_map'].

This recipe assumes the node is using an EC2 role that can access the given S3 bucket. Otherwise, enter the AWS credentials in node.default['cfe-mariadb']['reload']['aws_access_key_id'] and node.default['cfe-mariadb']['reload']['aws_secret_access_key'].


License and Authors

Author:: Earth U. ()