Funny you should mention that. I just put my half-baked solution to this problem on github today. https://github.com/gdusbabek/cassandra-maker. It generates cassandra.yaml files (and entire config directories too) that are based on the svn defaults. It should be easy to customize it to fit your needs.
As for the notion of yaml includes, a quick google made me think it's not possible. Gary. On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 14:34, B. Todd Burruss <bburr...@real.com> wrote: > how are folks customizing the cassandra.yaml for each node in the cluster. > specifically the token and IP address. > > with XML i used entities, but i'm not familiar with YAML. does yaml support > the same concept? or any sort of textual substitution? > > thx >