October 2018
Beginner to intermediate
348 pages
10h
English
The basic task behind scaling up a cluster is adding a new node. To accomplish this, start with your newly provisioned instance. If you follow good DevOps practices, and can install Apache Cassandra simply by executing your deployment pipeline, then this should be very easy for you. If you are installing Apache Cassandra manually, remember that all of the Cassandra configuration files should be mostly the same as they are on the other nodes.
There will, of course, be some differences in the files. Listen and RPC address values (as well as the broadcast addresses) should be specific to the node you are on. You will want to update those in your cassandra.yaml file, and your cassandra-env.sh script if you have it ...