Hi all I am using puppet to push cassandra.yaml file which has seeds node hardcoded, going forward I don't want to hard code the seed nodes and I plan to maintain a list of seed nodes. Since I have a cluster in place I would populate this list for now to start with and next time when I add a node this list would be referred and three nodes would be read and populated as seeds in the yaml file.
This implementation can lead to different nodes running different seeds I know that this is not a ideal situation but I believe that if a node has been in the ring for long enough(say 10 minutes, it knows about other nodes in the ring) then it can be used as a seed node. What do you guys think of populating seeds this way and also please throw some light on why running different seeds is not a best practice(assuming that all potential seed candidates have been in ring long enough) Thanks
