Unattended Installation

adamwri · January 8, 2015, 4:25pm

Hi,

I’m looking at having Couchbase install across a number of machines automatically and attach itself to a cluster.

I have created my setup.iss file and I’m confident that this step will work when tested on a secondary machine. This part of the installation is fine, but would be a little pointless if I am unable to automatically add the instance to a new or existing cluster.

Is this possible using the CLI tools, API or another method?

Thanks,
Adam

Edited to add - I’m installing onto Windows Server 2008 R2 using Community Edition v3.0.1.

anil · January 8, 2015, 6:53pm

Yes, you can add multiple servers to the cluster

using CLI command “server-add” - http://docs.couchbase.com/admin/admin/CLI/CBcli/cbcli-commands.html
using REST API “POST /controller/addNode” - http://docs.couchbase.com/admin/admin/REST/rest-cluster-addnodes.html

adamwri · January 9, 2015, 9:22am

Thanks Anil.

With regards to the above, I’m assuming that there is an unavoidable one-time initial setup of the first node of the cluster to allow anything further to be added? It also appears that the server-add command is expecting for initial installation and configuration of a node to be done, again I assume manually, so that it can be added in this manner?