{"id":398,"date":"2016-04-26T12:03:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T17:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/?p=398"},"modified":"2021-04-06T09:34:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T14:34:43","slug":"howto-build-mcrouter-for-rhel-ol-centos-7-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/2016\/04\/26\/howto-build-mcrouter-for-rhel-ol-centos-7-x\/","title":{"rendered":"HOWTO Build and Install Mcrouter for RHEL, OL, CENTOS 7.x"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: Unless you have a very specific environment, Facebook likely now has packages or updated compile instructions that will work better than this: https:\/\/github.com\/facebook\/mcrouter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The instructions below are likely out of date and may no longer work.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This post will show you how to build and install Mcrouter. Once complete, you will have a portable Mcrouter installation that you can apply to multiple machines via RPM.<\/p>\n

Building Mcrouter is not easy, but this step-by-step process should get you to a collection of RPMs which make up a functional and upgrade-able Mcrouter environment.<\/p>\n

About Mcrouter<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mcrouter is a memcached protocol router for scaling memcached (http:\/\/memcached.org\/) deployments. It’s a core component of cache infrastructure at Facebook and Instagram where mcrouter handles almost 5 billion requests per second at peak.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mcrouter is developed and maintained by Facebook.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can get the source and more information here: https:\/\/github.com\/facebook\/mcrouter<\/a><\/p>\n

You are going to do a lot of compiling and packaging.\u00c2\u00a0 Once you have this perfected, it is not a big stretch to hand it off to Jenkins or some other build tool for automation.<\/p>\n

Getting Started<\/strong><\/h2>\n

You need to build two environments.<\/p>\n

Environment 1: Build Environment for compiling and packaging Mcrouter<\/p>\n