Setup Cassandra Cluster AWS

Question

I want to setup a Cassandra 2.* Cluster composed of 3 (multiple nodes) nodes in AWS.

What are the official steps for doing this? base image to use, ports to open, config files, etc.

PS: Pretty much everything I found points me to DataStax site but I don't think it is free if later we decide to setup this in production.

Thanks!

Answer 1

So, I found these links which were enough to get it working.

• Install Cassandra on a Single Node Amazon Linux http://www.jonathanhui.com/install-cassandra-single-node-amazon-linux
• Install Cassandra on a Amazon Linux Cluste http://www.jonathanhui.com/install-cassandra-amazon-linux-cluster

Run into a few issues but nothing really major

• Cassandra: How to fix, ‘Fatal exception during initialization org.apache.cassandra.config. ConfigurationException: Saved cluster name Test Cluster != configured name…’?　　　　

• JNA not found. Native methods will be disabled.

• Can't connect to cassandra - NoHostAvailableException