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chef-wowza cookbook for Wowza 4.4.1

This cookbook automates the installation of the Wowza Media Server 4.4.1, including their installer, which contains a very long EULA, and 7 interactive prompts.

chef-wowza

Requirements

  • Java jdk - openjdk will be just fine.
  • Wowza license - this you will get when you sign up for a free trial, or you can request a developer license.
  • Wowza binary - the Wowza binary (4.4.1) is now wgetted as part of this role.

Attributes

default['wowza_file'] = "WowzaStreamingEngine-4.4.1-linux-x64-installer.run"
default['wowza_download_path'] = "http://www.wowza.com/downloads/WowzaStreamingEngine-4-4-1"
default['user_name'] = "admin"
default['password'] = "admin"
default['license_key'] = "insert key between quotations"

Distros tested

Currently, this is only tested on Centos 6.7 as a client machine and Ubuntu 14.04 as a server machime.

Wait a minute, what the hell is Wowza?

From the Wowza site:

Wowza Streaming Engine™ is robust, customizable media server software that powers reliable streaming of high-quality video and audio to any device, anywhere.

Wowza software is platform-agnostic, multi-format, and multi-screen. It takes in any video format, transcodes it once, and reliably delivers it in multiple formats and with the highest possible quality

Usage

1) Install knife-solo
apt-get update
apt-get install git -y
curl -L https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh | sudo bash
/opt/chef/embedded/bin/gem install knife-solo --no-ri --no-rdoc
2) Clone repository
mkdir ~/my_deploy_code
cd ~/my_deploy_code
knife solo init .
cd site-cookbooks/
git clone https://github.com/msergiy87/chef-wowza.git
3) Prepare host
cd ~/my_deploy_code
knife solo prepare root@HOST -P 'PASS'
4) Include chef-wowza in your node's run_list:
vim nodes/192.168.0.103.json
{
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[chef-wowza]"
  ],
  "automatic": {
    "ipaddress": "192.168.0.103"
  }
}
5) Add license key and change username and password
vim site-cookbooks/chef-wowza/attributes/default.rb

default['user_name'] = "admin"
default['password'] = "admin"
default['license_key'] = "insert key between quotations"
6) Cook
knife solo cook root@HOST -P 'PASS'
7) Add iptables rules on server
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 1935 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 8088 -j ACCEPT
8) Run web interface
http://192.168.0.103:8088/enginemanager

Wowza needs several user actions on the interactive prompt portion of the installer:

  • an acknowledgement of acceptance of their terms
  • an administrative user added for using the Wowza console
  • a password for the administrative user
  • confirmation of that password
  • Wowza license key
  • an acknowledgement of whether or not you want Wowza to start at boot

Those values can be edited in the template/script.exp.erb file.