I recently started working with Cassandra and am interested in knowing more about 2 files - cassandra_init.json which holds the list of keyspaces and column families and cassandra.yaml which seems to hold a bunch of configuration related fields. Can someone please elaborate why these files are needed and how these files are used/read by cassandra during startup. TIA!
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The cassandra.yaml file contains the configurable properties of the Cassandra database. At the very least, you would need to configure the following to bring up a minimum viable cluster:
cluster_name: your_cluster_name
seed_provider:
- class_name: org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleSeedProvider
parameters:
- seeds: "127.0.0.1:7000"
listen_address: private_ip
rpc_address: public_ip
There isn't such a thing as cassandra_init.json which leads me to suspect that you don't have a standard Cassandra installation and is possibly running a forked distribution. Cheers!
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