How to install Graphite on Vagrant with Chef

README.md

Here are some quick notes on installing Graphite on a Vagrant virtual machine using Chef recipes from GitHub. This more or less assumes you know what you're doing with Vagrant and Chef.

Notes

• I used the "lucid32" Ubuntu base box you see in most Vagrant examples (http://files.vagrantup.com/lucid32.box)
• Where possible, I used the cookbooks from Opscode. I was forced to use alternatives for Python (did not work for me) and for Graphite (no Opscode cookbook as of now).
• The Graphite recipe depends on the Python, Apache2, and runit recipes.
• I'm running the apt recipe first to update the Ubuntu package manager. The out-of-date manager that ships with the lucid32 box errored out for me when running the Python recipe.

Cookbooks Used

• https://github.com/heavywater/chef-graphite
• https://github.com/fnichol/chef-python
• https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/apt
• https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/apache2
• https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/runit

Vagrantfile

Vagrant::Config.run do |config|
  config.vm.box = 'lucid32'

  config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
    chef.cookbooks_path = 'cookbooks'

    chef.add_recipe 'apt'
    chef.add_recipe 'graphite'
  end
end

Thanks for this, whylom.

Protip to any Chef newbiews who stumble upon this in the future and have trouble setting up the chef-graphite cookbook: if you clone https://github.com/heavywater/chef-graphite into a cookbooks directory, make sure the directory is named cookbooks/graphite and not cookbooks/chef-graphite or else you will get errors that the recipe "graphite" could not be found.

Thanks for adding that, mattnworb! That problem bit me many times when I was first using Chef with a variety of cookbooks named "chef-[whatever]".

Now graphite cookbook also depends on memcached cookbook. Please add it to your description.