Running a Cassandra cluster in Kubernetes
In this section, we will explore in detail a very large example of configuring a Cassandra cluster to run on a Kubernetes cluster. The full example can be accessed here:
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/tree/master/examples/storage/cassandra.
First, we'll learn a little bit about Cassandra itself and its idiosyncrasies and then follow a step-by-step procedure to get it running using several of the techniques and strategies we've covered in the previous section.
Quick introduction to Cassandra
Cassandra is a distributed columnar data store. It was designed from the get go for big data. Cassandra is fast, robust (no single point of failure), highly-available, and linearly scalable. It also has multi-data ...
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