By Kole Hicks, Sr. Director, Products

How-To Deploy a Riak Cluster in 5 Minutes on GoGrid

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The Solution Use GoGrid’s 1-Button Deploy™ technology to provide an orchestrated deployment of a “beefy” Riak cluster:

5 nodes 16 GB RAM per node 16 cores per node 640 GB storage per node 10-Gbps network 40-Gbps private network connectivity to additional

Block Storage volumes (as needed)

The Challenge How can you deploy a new NoSQL cluster in an

environment that scales as needed—within a single data center or across data centers?

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Step 1: Log Into the Management Console

Log into your GoGrid account at my.gogrid.com.

If you don’t have an account, visit www.gogrid.com and click the Get Started button in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.

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Step 2:Add New Infrastructure

Once you’re in the management console, select the add button to bring up a list of infrastructure you can add to your network.

On the “Add New Infrastructure” window, you’ll see you have the option of adding “Big Data Clusters.”

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Step 3:Select Cluster Type

Select “Riak” from the “Add New Infrastructure” menu to bring up two options: a development cluster or a production cluster with a virtual firewall service.

Once you select the type of cluster you want, hit the Deploy button to automatically provision the servers, install Riak, and set up the associated network.

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Step 4:Confirm Cluster Deployment

In the management console, you can now see the Riak platform icon along with associated Riak server icons.

The green status indicators show that all the servers are up and running. All that’s left to do is login to one of the servers and validate that the servers are configured and communicating.

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Step 4(continued) Login to any member of the cluster either with a third-

party client tool (like Putty) or through GoGrid’s Console service.

Verify that all members are part of the cluster by typing the following command: riak-admin member_status

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Step 4(continued) Doing so brings up a list of all the nodes in the cluster. If

any are missing, you should be able to identify them.

And that’s it! In just 4 steps with a few clicks of the mouse, you have a Riak cluster up and running on high-performance SSD Cloud Servers.

For more information: Read the full blog post

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Try it Yourself! If you want to take a cluster of high-performance SSDs

out for a spin, just visit www.gogrid.com and request a free trial.