DESCRIPTION:

Installs Redis. Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store.

It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets.

Details http://redis.io/

REQUIREMENTS:

none

Currently tested on Ubuntu 10.04 ONLY.

ATTRIBUTES:

['redis']['bind']         # "127.0.0.1"
['redis']['port']         # "6379"
['redis']['config_path']  # "/etc/redis/redis.conf"
['redis']['daemonize']    # "yes"
['redis']['timeout']      # "300"
['redis']['loglevel']     # "notice"
['redis']['password']     # nil

['redis']['source']['version']          # "2.4.1"
['redis']['source']['prefix']           # "/usr/local"
['redis']['source']['tar_url']          # "http://redis.googlecode.com/files/redis-2.4.1.tar.gz"
['redis']['source']['tar_checksum']     # "38e02..."
['redis']['source']['create_service']   # true
['redis']['source']['user']             # "redis"
['redis']['source']['group']            # "redis"

USAGE:

• Add cookbook redis to your runlist. This will install redis on your machine.
• Add cookbook redis::source to your runlist. This will build redis on your machine from source.
• Add cookbook redis::gem to your runlist. This will install the redis Rubygem.
• Add cookbook redis::remove to your runlist if you want to remove redis on your machine.