chef-percona

Description

Installs the Percona MySQL client and/or server components. (We are attempting to leverage the official Opscode MySQL cookbook as much as possible.)

Optionally installs:

• XtraBackup hot backup software
• Percona Toolkit advanced command-line tools
• XtraDB Cluster high availability and high scalability solution for MySQL.
• Percona Monitoring Plugins various Nagios plugins for monitoring MySQL

Requirements

Supported Platforms

We provide an expanding set of tests against the following 64-bit platforms:

• Ubuntu Precise 12.04 LTS
• Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 LTS
• CentOS 6.5

Although we don't test against all possible platform verions, we expect the following to be supported. Please submit an issue if this is not the cause, and we'll make reasonable efforts to improve support:

• Ubuntu
• Debian
• Amazon Linux AMI
• CentOS
• Red Hat
• Scientific
• Fedora

Cookbooks

• apt Opscode LWRP Cookbook
• openssl Opscode Cookbook
• yum Opscode LWRP Cookbook

Chef

We aim to test the most recent releases of Chef 10 and 11. You can view the currently tested versions. (Feel free to submit a pull request if they're out of date!)

Recipes

• percona - The default no-op recipe.
• percona::package_repo - Sets up the package repository and installs common packages.
• percona::client - Installs the Percona MySQL client libraries.
• percona::server - Installs and configures the Percona MySQL server daemon.
• percona::backup - Installs and configures the Percona XtraBackup hot backup software.
• percona::toolkit - Installs the Percona Toolkit software
• percona::cluster - Installs the Percona XtraDB Cluster server components
• percona::configure_server - Used internally to manage the server configuration.
• percona::replication - Used internally to grant permissions for replication.
• percona::access_grants - Used internally to grant permissions for recipes.
• percona::monitoring - Installs Percona monitoring plugins for Nagios

Usage

This cookbook installs the Percona MySQL components if not present, and pulls updates if they are installed on the system.

Encrypted Passwords

This cookbook requires Encrypted Data Bags. If you forget to use them or do not use a node attribute to overwrite them empty passwords will be used.

To use encrypted passwords, you must create an encrypted data bag. This cookbook assumes a data bag named passwords, but you can override the name using the node[:percona][:encrypted_data_bag] attribute.

This cookbook expects a mysql item and a system item. Please refer to the official documentation on how to get this setup. It actually uses a MySQL example so it can be mostly copied. Ensure you cover the data bag items as described below.

Skip passwords

Set the ["percona"]["skip_passwords"] attribute to skip setting up passwords. Removes the need for the encrypted data bag if using chef-solo. Is useful for setting up development and ci environments where you just want to use the root user with no password. If you are doing this you may want to set [:percona][:server][:debian_username] to be "root" also.

Skip Configure

Set the ['percona']['skip_configure'] attribute to skip having the server recipe include the configure_server recipe directly after install. This is mostly useful in a wrapper cookbook sort of context. Once skipped, you can then perform any pre-config actions your wrapper needs to, such as dropping a custom configuration file or init script or cleaning up incorrectly sized innodb logfiles. You can then include configure_server where necessary.

mysql item

The mysql item should contain entries for root, backup, and replication. If no value is found, the cookbook will fall back to the default non-encrypted password.

system item

The "system" item should contain an entry for the debian system user as specified in the node[:percona][:server][:debian_username] attribute. If no such entry is found, the cookbook will fall back to the default non-encrypted password.

Example: "passwords" data bag - this example assumes that node[:percona][:server][:debian_username] = spud

{
  "mysql" :
  {
    "root" : "trywgFA6R70NO28PNhMpGhEvKBZuxouemnbnAUQsUyo=\n"
    "backup" : "eqoiudfj098389fjadfkadf=\n"
    "replication" : "qwo0fj0213fm9020fm2023fjsld=\n"
  },
  "system" :
  {
    "spud" : "dwoifm2340f024jfadgfu243hf2=\n"
  }
}

Above shows the encrypted password in the data bag. Check out the encrypted_data_bag_secret setting in knife.rb to setup your data bag secret during bootstrapping.

Attributes

version = default["percona"]["version"] = "5.6"

# Always restart percona on configuration changes
default["percona"]["auto_restart"] = true

case node["platform_family"]
when "debian"
  default["percona"]["server"]["socket"]                        = "/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock"
  default["percona"]["server"]["default_storage_engine"]        = "InnoDB"
  default["percona"]["server"]["includedir"]                    = "/etc/mysql/conf.d/"
  default["percona"]["server"]["pidfile"]                       = "/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid"
  default["percona"]["server"]["package"]                       = "percona-server-server-#{version}"
when "rhel"
  default["percona"]["server"]["socket"]                        = "/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock"
  default["percona"]["server"]["default_storage_engine"]        = "innodb"
  default["percona"]["server"]["includedir"]                    = ""
  default["percona"]["server"]["pidfile"]                       = "/var/lib/mysql/mysqld.pid"
  default["percona"]["server"]["package"]                       = "Percona-Server-server-#{version.tr('.', '')}"
  default["percona"]["server"]["shared_pkg"]                    = "Percona-Server-shared-#{version.tr('.', '')}"
end

# Cookbook Settings
default["percona"]["main_config_file"]                          = "/etc/my.cnf"
default["percona"]["keyserver"]                                 = "keys.gnupg.net"
default["percona"]["encrypted_data_bag"]                        = "passwords"
default["percona"]["use_percona_repos"]                         = true

# Start percona server on boot
default["percona"]["server"]["enable"]                          = true

# Basic Settings
default["percona"]["server"]["role"]                            = "standalone"
default["percona"]["server"]["username"]                        = "mysql"
default["percona"]["server"]["datadir"]                         = "/var/lib/mysql"
default["percona"]["server"]["tmpdir"]                          = "/tmp"
default["percona"]["server"]["debian_username"]                 = "debian-sys-maint"
default["percona"]["server"]["nice"]                            = 0
default["percona"]["server"]["open_files_limit"]                = 16384
default["percona"]["server"]["hostname"]                        = "localhost"
default["percona"]["server"]["basedir"]                         = "/usr"
default["percona"]["server"]["port"]                            = 3306
default["percona"]["server"]["character_set"]                   = "utf8"
default["percona"]["server"]["collation"]                       = "utf8_unicode_ci"
default["percona"]["server"]["language"]                        = "/usr/share/mysql/english"
default["percona"]["server"]["skip_name_resolve"]               = false
default["percona"]["server"]["skip_external_locking"]           = true
default["percona"]["server"]["net_read_timeout"]                = 120
default["percona"]["server"]["connect_timeout"]                 = 10
default["percona"]["server"]["old_passwords"]                   = 0
default["percona"]["server"]["bind_address"]                    = "127.0.0.1"
%w[debian_password root_password].each do |attribute|
  next if defined?(node["percona"]["server"][attribute])
  default["percona"]["server"][attribute]                       = secure_password
end

# Fine Tuning
default["percona"]["server"]["key_buffer"]                      = "16M"
default["percona"]["server"]["max_allowed_packet"]              = "64M"
default["percona"]["server"]["thread_stack"]                    = "192K"
default["percona"]["server"]["query_alloc_block_size"]          = "16K"
default["percona"]["server"]["memlock"]                         = false
default["percona"]["server"]["transaction_isolation"]           = "REPEATABLE-READ"
default["percona"]["server"]["tmp_table_size"]                  = "64M"
default["percona"]["server"]["max_heap_table_size"]             = "64M"
default["percona"]["server"]["sort_buffer_size"]                = "8M"
default["percona"]["server"]["join_buffer_size"]                = "8M"
default["percona"]["server"]["thread_cache_size"]               = 16
default["percona"]["server"]["back_log"]                        = 50
default["percona"]["server"]["max_connections"]                 = 30
default["percona"]["server"]["max_connect_errors"]              = 9999999
default["percona"]["server"]["table_cache"]                     = 8192
default["percona"]["server"]["group_concat_max_len"]            = 4096

# Query Cache Configuration
default["percona"]["server"]["query_cache_size"]                = "64M"
default["percona"]["server"]["query_cache_limit"]               = "2M"

# Logging and Replication
default["percona"]["server"]["sync_binlog"]                     = 1
default["percona"]["server"]["slow_query_log"]                  = 1
default["percona"]["server"]["slow_query_log_file"]             = "/var/log/mysql/mysql-slow.log"
default["percona"]["server"]["long_query_time"]                 = 2
default["percona"]["server"]["server_id"]                       = 1
default["percona"]["server"]["binlog_do_db"]                    = []
default["percona"]["server"]["expire_logs_days"]                = 10
default["percona"]["server"]["max_binlog_size"]                 = "100M"
default["percona"]["server"]["binlog_cache_size"]               = "1M"
default["percona"]["server"]["binlog_format"]                   = "MIXED"
default["percona"]["server"]["log_bin"]                         = "master-bin"
default["percona"]["server"]["relay_log"]                       = "slave-relay-bin"
default["percona"]["server"]["log_slave_updates"]               = false
default["percona"]["server"]["log_warnings"]                    = true
default["percona"]["server"]["log_long_format"]                 = false
default["percona"]["server"]["bulk_insert_buffer_size"]         = "64M"

# MyISAM Specific
default["percona"]["server"]["myisam_recover"]                  = "BACKUP"
default["percona"]["server"]["myisam_sort_buffer_size"]         = "128M"
default["percona"]["server"]["myisam_max_sort_file_size"]       = "10G"
default["percona"]["server"]["myisam_repair_threads"]           = 1

# InnoDB Specific
default["percona"]["server"]["skip_innodb"]                     = false
default["percona"]["server"]["innodb_additional_mem_pool_size"] = "32M"
default["percona"]["server"]["innodb_buffer_pool_size"]         = "128M"
default["percona"]["server"]["innodb_data_file_path"]           = "ibdata1:10M:autoextend"
default["percona"]["server"]["innodb_file_per_table"]           = true
default["percona"]["server"]["innodb_data_home_dir"]            = ""
default["percona"]["server"]["innodb_thread_concurrency"]       = 16
default["percona"]["server"]["innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit"]  = 1
default["percona"]["server"]["innodb_fast_shutdown"]            = false
default["percona"]["server"]["innodb_log_buffer_size"]          = "64M"
default["percona"]["server"]["innodb_log_file_size"]            = "5M"
default["percona"]["server"]["innodb_log_files_in_group"]       = 2
default["percona"]["server"]["innodb_max_dirty_pages_pct"]      = 80
default["percona"]["server"]["innodb_flush_method"]             = "O_DIRECT"
default["percona"]["server"]["innodb_lock_wait_timeout"]        = 120

# Replication Settings
default["percona"]["server"]["replication"]["read_only"]        = false
default["percona"]["server"]["replication"]["host"]             = ""
default["percona"]["server"]["replication"]["username"]         = ""
default["percona"]["server"]["replication"]["password"]         = ""
default["percona"]["server"]["replication"]["port"]             = 3306

# XtraBackup Settings
default["percona"]["backup"]["configure"]                       = false
default["percona"]["backup"]["username"]                        = "backup"
unless defined?(node["percona"]["backup"]["password"])
  default["percona"]["backup"]["password"]                      = secure_password
end

# XtraDB Cluster Settings
default["percona"]["cluster"]["package"]                        = "percona-xtradb-cluster-55"
default["percona"]["cluster"]["binlog_format"]                  = "ROW"
default["percona"]["cluster"]["wsrep_provider"]                 = "/usr/lib64/libgalera_smm.so"
default["percona"]["cluster"]["wsrep_cluster_address"]          = ""
default["percona"]["cluster"]["wsrep_slave_threads"]            = 2
default["percona"]["cluster"]["wsrep_cluster_name"]             = ""
default["percona"]["cluster"]["wsrep_sst_method"]               = "rsync"
default["percona"]["cluster"]["wsrep_node_name"]                = ""
default["percona"]["cluster"]["innodb_locks_unsafe_for_binlog"] = 1
default["percona"]["cluster"]["innodb_autoinc_lock_mode"]       = 2

Monitoring.rb

default["percona"]["plugins_version"] = "1.1.3"
default["percona"]["plugins_packages"] = %w[percona-nagios-plugins percona-zabbix-templates percona-cacti-templates]

Explicit my.cnf templating

In some situation it is preferable to explicitly define the attributes needed in a my.cnf file. This is enabled by adding categories to the node[:percona][:conf] attributes. All keys found in the node[:percona][:conf] map will represent categories in the my.cnf file. Each category contains a map of attributes that will be written to the my.cnf file for that category. See the example for more details.

Example:

node["percona"]["conf"]["mysqld"]["slow_query_log_file"] = "/var/lib/mysql/data/mysql-slow.log"

This configuration would write the mysqld category to the my.cnf file and have an attribute slow_query_log_file whose value would be /var/lib/mysql/data/mysql-slow.log.

Example output (my.cnf):

[mysqld]
slow_query_log_file = /var/lib/mysql/data/mysql-slow.log

Dynamically setting the bind address

There's a special attribute node["percona"]["server"]["bind_to"] that allows you to dynamically set the bind address. This attribute accepts the values "public_ip", "private_ip", "loopback", or and interface name like "eth0". Based on this, the recipe will find a corresponding ipv4 address, and override the node["percona"]["server"]["bind_address"] attribute.

Goals

In no particular order:

• Be the most flexible way to setup a MySQL distribution through Chef
  • Support for Chef Solo
  • Support for Chef Server
• Leverage to official Opscode MySQL cookbook as much as possible.
• Support the following common database infrastructures:
  • Single server instance
  • Traditional Master/Slave replication
  • Multi-master cluster replication
• Support the most recent Chef 10 & 11 runtime environments
• Be the easiest way to setup a MySQL distribution through Chef

TODO

• Fully support all of the standard Chef-supported distributions

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

Contributors

Many thanks go to the following contributors who have helped to make this cookbook even better:

• @jagcrete
  • configurable keyserver
  • encrypted password data bag
  • custom my.cnf file
• @pwelch
  • ensure cookbook dependencies are loaded
  • Foodcritic compliance updates
  • various minor patches and updates
• @masv
  • compatibility updates for 5.5
• @stottsan
  • config cleanup to prevent service restarts on chef run
• @abecciu
  • auto-generate secure passwords by default
  • add ability to dynamically set the bind address
  • add support for main_config_file attribute
• @patcon
  • add yum support for centos, amazon, scientific, fedora, and redhat distributions
• @psi
  • fixes required for RedHat platforms
• @TheSerapher
  • improvements for master/slave replication setup
  • updates and clarifications to the README
  • add attribute to control server restart on config changes
• @bensomers
  • minor fixes to replication.sql
  • fix a very dangerous bug around binlog-do-db setting for slave servers
  • fix slow query log setting for 5.5
• @tdg5
  • avoid use of set_unless for chef-solo, workaround for CHEF-2945
• @gpendler
  • avoid re-installation of packages RedHat platforms
• @vinu
  • pin the percona apt repo with high priority
• @ckuttruff
  • improve security on debian-based systems by changing config file permissions
  • don't pass mysql root password in plaintext commands
  • fix issue with -p flag when setting initial password
• @srodrig0209
  • add the monitoring recipe
• @jesseadams
  • fixes for custom datadir setting use case
• @see0
  • fix incorrect root password reference
• @baldur
  • (honorable mention) fix incorrect root password reference
  • fix typo in attribute for server username
• @chrisroberts
  • (honorable mention) fix issue with -p flag when setting initial password
• @aaronjensen
  • allow server to not be started on startup
• @pioneerit
  • add sections to .my.cnf for mysqladmin and mysqldump
• @AndreyChernyh
  • use resources helper to support newer chef versions
• @avit
  • add default utf8 character set option
  • cleanup replication support
  • remove dependency on opscode/mysql cookbook
• @alexzorin
  • add support for skip-name-resolve option
• @jyotty
  • specify binlog_format in master and slave roles
• @adamdunkley
  • fix table_cache variable for mysql versions 5.6 and above
  • remove unnecessary rewind, perform it directly
• @freerobby
  • add requirements to Berksfile
  • more flexible apt dependency version to minimize conflicts
• @spovich
  • disable old_passwords support by default
  • force version 5.5 on Debian family to maintain consistency with RHEL family
• @v1nc3ntlaw
  • add attribute innodb_file_format
  • add attribute ignore_db for slave template
• @joegaudet
  • add attribute group_concat_max_len
• @mikesmullin
  • accumulating patches from multiple sources
  • tempdir fixes
• @totally
  • support yum cookbook v3.0
  • use attributes for package names
• @sapunoff
  • initial implementation of using attributes for package names
• @errm
  • add attribute skip_passwords
• @ewr
  • fix mysql calls when there is no root password
• @jharley
  • make connect_timeout configurable
• @achied
  • fix setting passwords if attribute not defined
• @akshah123
  • force client packages to install version 5.5
• @tkuhlman
  • re-add cluster support
• @mancdaz
  • install monitoring plugins from package instead of tarball
• @iancoffey
  • set debian-sys-maint password after grant
  • add attribute skip_configure
• @notnmeyer
  • fix access_grants guards for cluster and backup recipes
• @odacrem
  • use correct replication username in replication.sql

License

chef-percona

• Freely distributable and licensed under the MIT license.
• Copyright (c) 2012-2014 Phil Cohen ([email protected])
• http://phlippers.net/