/terraform-cassandra-multinode

Sets up 3 node Cassandra cluster using terraform

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Terraform-cassandra-multinode

Follow these steps to get a 3 node cassandra cluster up and running.

  • Install terraform.

  • Update variables.tf with proper values

  • run

    terraform get
    

This is to install an external module for cassandra security groups.

  • run
    terraform plan
    

Review the changes.

  • run
    terraform apply
    

To bring up resources. At the end you should get the public IP address of your nodes. run terraform show at any time to get those public ips for the next steps.

  • Once your instances are up, ssh into each instance. cassandra_0 and cassandra_1 are seed nodes so you must do those one at a time.

On each node in sequence do the following steps:

ssh -i <path2key>.pem ubuntu@<cassandra_0_ip>
bash /tmp/provisioning/setup_cassandra.sh 0

ssh -i <path2key>.pem ubuntu@<cassandra_1_ip>
bash /tmp/provisioning/setup_cassandra.sh 1

ssh -i <path2key>.pem ubuntu@<cassandra_2_ip>
bash /tmp/provisioning/setup_cassandra.sh 2

After all the nodes are up and waiting for connection (tail -f /var/log/cassandra/system.log)

ubuntu@ip-10-2-5-172:~$ nodetool status
Datacenter: datacenter1
=======================
Status=Up/Down
|/ State=Normal/Leaving/Joining/Moving
--  Address     Load       Tokens       Owns (effective)  Host ID                               Rack
UN  10.2.5.170  149.84 KB  256          64.3%             00a6ca46-a115-4dbf-a4af-68bfc830395f  rack1
UN  10.2.5.171  170.39 KB  256          69.0%             b4e6b40a-6e51-47b1-8493-aadc2949db47  rack1
UN  10.2.5.172  163.16 KB  256          66.7%             3294d6b2-a59a-41fb-8cac-53343cb8c049  rack1

For secondary server:

ssh -i <path2key>.pem ubuntu@<cassandra_2_ip>
bash /tmp/provisioning/single.sh

Backup/Restore script uses the pem key to send backup to remote server, please make sure that the path and name is correct.

  • To create backup:
./backup.bash backup
  • To restore backup:
sh restorenew.sh restore BACKUPDAY
Example:
sh restorenew.sh restore 20160822

Give confirmation to the warning to proceed:

Are you sure? It'll delete all current data (yes/no)
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yes