What

Installing ejabberd in a clustered fashion is kind of a pain. Created through many hours of googling and trial-and-error, this Vagrant project will:

• Start two Ubuntu nodes.
• Install ejabberd.
• Set up clustering between them, programmatically. If you've wrestled with this before you'll understand why that's significant.
• Adds an admin user.

Yeah I know... you're welcome.

How

1. Install vagrant

    gem install vagrant
   

2. Download and install VirtualBox

3. Install vagrant-hostmanager

    vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostmanager
   

4. Clone this repo

5. (Optional) Tweak the settings in the Vagrantfile. There are ip addresses and domain names and stuff.

6. Run it!

    cd [this-repo]
    vagrant up
   

Once that's done, you will have two ejabberd nodes running in a cluster Go to http://chat1.example.com:5280/admin/nodes/ to verify (default credentials: admin@example.com/password)

Thanks

• The initial chef recipe for ejabberd comes from https://github.com/cookbooks/ejabberd, but was heavily modified.
• This StackOverflow answer was invaluable in getting this going: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5156443/ejabberd-clustering/9101761#9101761