Run a Cassandra node in a Docker container

run a standalone container with the following command (replace /persistent/local/storage with an existing local path)

docker run -d -p 7000:7000 -p 7001:7001 -p 7199:7199 -p 9042:9042 -p 9160:9160 -v /persistent/local/storage:/var/lib/cassandra --name csnd cassandra:2.2

Simulate a Cassandra cluster with 3 Docker containers

A three node Cassandra cluster can be simulated with docker containers by downloading the docker-compose.yml file from this repository and then running

docker-compose up -d

(this will run if docker and docker-compose are already installed)

Otherwise on a "fresh" Debian based system run the following command

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/academyofdata/cassandra-cluster/master/cluster-setup.sh| bash -s

to download and install docker and docker-compose and then run the docker-compose up -d command

Once the three nodes are running (check with docker ps -a), run

docker exec -ti `docker ps --format '{{.Names}}' | grep node01` bash

to log into the first container (called {something}_node01_1 - make sure that there are not other containers having node01 in their name) and then run

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/academyofdata/cassandra-cluster/master/get-data.sh |bash -s

to download all the data files into /tmp

Restarting the containers

If the containers have stopped, simply run

docker-compose up -d

In the same directory where you run the first install step (the one with cluster-setup.sh, there should be a file called docker-compose.yml)

Running the containers without docker-compose

First, start a single node

docker run -d --name node01 academyofdata/cassandra

then, for each additional node, run

docker run -d --link node01:node01 --name node02 -e "CASSANDRA_SEEDS=node01" academyofdata/cassandra

Installing wget

If at any of the steps above you get a message saying "bash: wget: command not found", run the following commands

apt-get update
apt-get install -y wget

get_num_processes

If you get a get_num_processes() takes no keyword arguments error, get out of cqlsh (but stay in the container shell, not on the host system) and run

rm /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/cqlshlib/copyutil.so

Running a container with all the MovieLens (and other exercises) data already preloaded

Start a single Cassandra node with the following command

docker run -d -p 7000:7000 -p 7001:7001 -p 7199:7199 -p 9042:9042 -p 9160:9160 --name aod_cass academyofdata/cassandra

Once the node is up-and-running you'll be able to access cqlsh the 'regular' way, but in addition to the 'stock' Cassandra image, in /data you'll have the csv for MovieLens & weather data.