Deploying Postgres-XL in 2-minutes with Chef/serverspec

As you may know, Postgres-XL, a MPP implementation of PostgreSQL, was released  last month.

• Postgres-XL | Open Source Scalable SQL Database Cluster http://www.postgres-xl.org/

Most of recent topics in the PostgreSQL development are related to implementing data warehouse. And Postgres-XL is getting attention.

However, such enhancement which consists of several PostgreSQL servers is a bit difficult to try for newbies because of the complicated deployment procedures.

So, I'd like to introduce a deployment toolkit I have created to deploy and test a "minimal" Postgres-XL cluster. It consists of chef cookbook and serverspec script.