roder/riakaws

Simple and rapid Riak deployment on Amazon Web Services.

riakaws's Issues

instance++

What if I wanted to have an instance that runs extra servers? Using chef cookbooks of-course. Maybe that's what runs the Nginx balancer, but also Redis, Node.js, etc. This instance would be large (need the extra ram & cpu), but I'm also cheap (meaning poor) and I want to make it a Riak node too. That means one less small instance = lighter Amazon bill. Perhaps we could boot this special instance first and then have the rest of the cluster nodes join it. And as a last step do the Nginx config - after we have all the IPs... So maybe it's easier to boot it last. Or else have some coordination done through a chef server.

proxy / load balancing

How would the cluster be reached? Some people have proxied with Nginx -- often comes recommended. It can also handle authentication if you plan to call Riak from outside the EC2 security group. Here is a recent http://markmail.org/thread/2jwkqf6226iepya3 discussion. I guess specify a separate new (or running) instance to install or configure Nginx on. Saw this recently http://gist.github.com/372206 but maybe you already know what the nodes are?