ANNOUNCEMENT: cassandra-aws project

[Oleg Dulin]

Colleagues:

I'd like to announce a pet project I started: 
https://github.com/olegdulin/cassandra-aws

What I would like to accomplish as an end-goal is an Amazon marketplace 
AMI that makes it easy to configure a new Cassandra cluster or add new 
nodes to an existing Cassandra cluster, w/o having to jump through 
hoops. Ideally I'd like to do for Cassandra what RDS does for 
PostgreSQL in AWS, for instance, but I am not sure if ultimately it is 
possible.

To get started, I shared some notes in the wiki as well as a couple of 
scripts I used to simplify things for myself. I put those scripts 
together from input I received on the #cassandra IRC channel and this 
mailing list and I am very greatful to the community for helping me 
through this -- so this is my contribution back.

Consider this email as a solicitation for help. I am open to 
discussions, and contributions, and suggestions, anything you can help 
with.


Regards,
Oleg