zhicwu/cassandra repository overview

⁠docker-cassandra

Apache Cassandra docker image for development and testing purposes.

⁠What's inside

ubuntu:16.04
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 |--- zhicwu/java:8
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       |--- zhicwu/cassandra:3.0.x

• Official Ubuntu Trusty(16.04) docker image
• Oracle JDK 8 latest release
• Apache Cassandra⁠ 3.0.x latest stable release
• Stratio's Cassandra Lucene Index⁠ built against latest code in 3.0.x branch
• Jolokia⁠ as the JMX-HTTP bridge

⁠How to use

• Pull the image

# docker pull zhicwu/cassandra:3.0

• Setup scripts

# wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zhicwu/docker-cassandra/master/start-node.sh
# chmod +x *.sh

• Start Cassandra

# ./start_node.sh
# docker logs -f my-cassandra
...
# docker exec -it my-cassandra bash
$ cqlsh -u cassandra -p cassandra

You can now use cassandra/cassandra to access the node.

Tips:

1. Edit cluster-env.sh to customize cluster environment, which should be same for all nodes in a data center or whole cluster
2. Edit node-env.sh to customize node environment
3. Edit start-node.sh to customize docker start options
4. To enable Jolokia, make changes in node-env.sh like the following, restart Cassandra and connect using tools like hawtio⁠

JMX_REMOTE="yes"
JOLOKIA_ENABLED="yes"
JMX_USERNAME="ffa"
JMX_PASSWORD="ffa"