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 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 center support. It achieves all this by having a laser focus and carefully crafting the features it supports—and just as importantly—the features it doesn't support. In a previous company, I ran a Kubernetes cluster that used Cassandra as the main data...