Azure Riak Setup

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Steps to Setup riak / erlang on Ubuntu (Azure):

# Prerequisites
sudo apt-get install git make build-essential libncurses5-dev openssl libssl-dev

# Installing Erlang
wget http://erlang.org/download/otp_src_R14B03.tar.gz
tar zxvf otp_src_R14B03.tar.gz
cd otp_src_R14B03
./configure && make && sudo make install

cd ..

# Installing Riak
curl -O http://downloads.basho.com/riak/CURRENT/riak-1.1.4.tar.gz
tar zxvf riak-1.1.4.tar.gz
cd riak-1.1.4
make rel

cd ..

# Configuring / running

# on node 1
ifconfig #take note of a line similar to "inet addr:10.119.88.146", known as <IP_ONE> from now on

# foreach node 1 to <N>
cd riak-1.1.4/rel/riak
ifconfig 			#take note of a line similar to "inet addr:10.119.88.146", known as <IP_N> from now on
vi etc/vm.args 		# Change "-name riak@127.0.0.1" to "-name riak<N>@<IP_N>"
vi etc/app.config	# Change "{http, [ {"127.0.0.1", 8098 } ]}," to "{http, [ {"<IP_N>", 8098 } ]},"
./bin/riak start

# foreach node 2 to <N>
cd riak-1.1.4/rel/riak
./bin/riak-admin join riak1@<IP_ONE>