DokC K8ssandra-lightweight helm-chart

Custom K8ssandra operator for Date on Kuberenetes' how-to-dok project. This chart contains the kubernetes operator for cassandra as a stack, it includes:

1. Apache Cassandra
2. Prometheus and Grafana
3. Stargate

There are provisions to enable packages like Medusa and Reaper, You can enable them by adding them to the dependencies and enable the values to enable these containers

Installation and requirements

Requirements

• CPU Cores = 4
• RAM = 8128m

Installation

To Install this package:

You can add it through:

helm repo add dokc https://abhijithganesh.github.io/dokc-helm-chart/

This will add your package into local helm repository list. To verify this , run the command helm repo list

It must show dokc as list.

Once the repository is listed, you can run your k8ssandra cluster, but this would require a YAML file which would like this

cassandra:
 version: <Cassandra Version Number, preferred version = 4.0.1> 
 cassandraLibDirVolume:
   storageClass: local-path
   size: 5Gi
 allowMultipleNodesPerWorker: true
 heap:
  size: 1G
  newGenSize: 1G
 resources:
   requests:
     cpu: 1000m
     memory: 2Gi
   limits:
     cpu: 1000m
     memory: 2Gi
 datacenters:
 - name: <Data Center Name>
   size: <Size>
   racks:
   - name: < Rack Name >
   
kube-prometheus-stack:
 grafana:
   adminUser: < Grafana Admin User >
   adminPassword: <Grafana Password>
   
   
stargate:
 enabled: <Boolean>
 replicas: 1
 heapMB: 256
 cpuReqMillicores: 200
 cpuLimMillicores: 1000
 

To run the cluster, execute the following command: helm install -f <filename>.yaml <Instance Name (or) Cluster Name> dokc/dokc-chart

Credits

Thanks to K8ssandra.io who's the maker of k8ssandra/k8ssandra chart, the chart was pivotal and it was an inspiration to this chart.