Cookbook to offer a btsync service provider and installation recipe. BtSync is a closed source bit-torrent implementation to act as a Dropbox like application syncing folders between different operational systems. Also, btsync is fairly simple implementation, being only a ~4MB daemon.

Official website: http://www.bittorrent.com/sync

Only requirement is to have btsync package installed, which is planned to happen via RPM. Consider this cookbook attributes to define which version should be present and RPM name.

• btsync: Local install of BtSync tool;

Defines a simple interface to synchronize a given folder with network peers, the key to have data shared between them using this provider is the name informed to "btsync_share" provider, which the other nodes must call for the same share name. For instance the following, called "stuff":

btsync_share "stuff" do
  dir "/media/stuff_dir"
  action :share
end

It will create a data-bag called btsync, and another item inside called stuff that is how the other nodes will notice which hosts are sharing this data.

More attributes may be informed to this provider:

• share_name: It is the name attribute informed to this provider, as on the first example you may observe stuff being used;
• dir: Local directory that we will share;
• use_relay_server: Disabled by default, at this use case it plans to have only "peers" on a given share;
• use_tracker: Same applies to having a tracker, here we might want only peers;
• use_dht: Also a distributed hash table, is not necessary to only have "peers";
• search_lan: Inform btsync to search for it's peers on local network, it must be enable in order to communicate with it's peers;
• use_sync_trash: Before delete data, btsync will move it to a trash folder, which you may choose to sync between peers;

Some of it's available configuration options are hard-coded on this provider, since btsync uses a JSON configuration file format, it's very handy to export it straight away from a Ruby hash defined internally.

Installs the RPM that provides btsync and creates the basic directories to run this service. Therefore, include btsync::install in your node run_list:

{
  "name":"my_node",
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[btsync::install]"
  ]
}