Cassandra

Ansible role to install and configure Apache Cassandra.

Note: - Recommended Java version is 8 - Support for datastax community edition dropped - Recommended cassandra_distro is apache - Support for ddc cassandra_distro to be deprecated soon

Examples

- hosts: dbhost

  vars:
    cassandra_distro: apache
    cassandra_version: 3.11.2
    cassandra_cluster_name: myAwesomeCluster
    cassandra_seeds: [ "seedIp1", "seedIp2" ]  			# List of IP Addresses ONLY
    cassandra_listen_address: "{{ ansible_eth0.ipv4.address }}"
    cassandra_rpc_address: "{{ ansible_eth0.ipv4.address }}"

  roles:
    - wunzeco.cassandra

INFO:

    If your seed nodes have DNS resolveable FQDNs, you may use
**cassandra_seeds_fqdn** (instead of cassandra_seeds).

Testing

To run integration tests of this role

PLATFORM=ubuntu-1404            # other options - ubuntu-1604 or centos
kitchen verify $PLATFORM && kitchen destroy $PLATFORM

Note: kitchen test command is not appropriate for this role because both kitchen suites (instances) need to be up and running for all tests to pass.

Dependencies:

None