1. How-To Deploy a Riak Cluster in 5 Minutes on GoGrid
By Kole Hicks, Sr. Director, Products
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2. How to Deploy a Riak Cluster in 5 Minutes
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?
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)
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3. How to Deploy a Riak Cluster in 5 Minutes
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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4. How to Deploy a Riak Cluster in 5 Minutes
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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5. How to Deploy a Riak Cluster in 5 Minutes
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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6. How to Deploy a Riak Cluster in 5 Minutes
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 highperformance SSD Cloud Servers.
For more information: Read the full blog post
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9. How to Deploy a Riak Cluster in 5 Minutes
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.
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