We use chef for configuration management and blender for on demand jobs https://github.com/opscode/chef https://github.com/PagerDuty/blender On Oct 23, 2014 2:18 AM, "Alain RODRIGUEZ" <arodr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I was wondering about how do you guys handle a large cluster (50+ > machines). > > I mean there is sometime you need to change configuration (cassandra.yaml) > or send a command to one, some or all nodes (cleanup, upgradesstables, > setstramthoughput or whatever). > > So far we have been using things like custom scripts for repairs or any > routine maintenance and cssh for specific and one shot actions on the > cluster. But I guess this doesn't really scale, I guess we coul use pssh > instead. For configuration changes we use Capistrano that might scale > properly. > > So I would like to known, what are the methods that operators use on large > cluster out there ? Have some of you built some open sourced "cluster > management" interfaces or scripts that could make things easier while > operating on large Cassandra clusters ? > > Alain >