TLDR Can I suggest as a good middle road to at least use something like csshx https://code.google.com/p/csshx/ ?
Details Having worked with a huge variety of skill sets and cluster sizes, I'd argue "it depends" a lot on team skills, especially when problems occur. Point being even with small clusters when you're figuring out how to setup and tune nodes people frequently get it wrong the first few times (almost invariably not following the docs), and then are trying to fix problems in prod while not making another mistake in the process, under pressure. This is a wonderfully combination to screw up even more. I lean towards tools to automate things (classic bash scripting in my case) but I was synchronizing configuration 15 years ago, and not doing things by hand even then. On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Eric Stevens <migh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If you're just trying to get your feet wet with distributed software, and > your node count is going to be reasonably low and won't grow any time soon, > it's probably easier to just install it yourself rather than trying to also > learn how to use software deployment technologies like puppet or chef. > Those aren't easier until you are operating at a scale where you need to be > able to automate adding new nodes. > > > On Sun, Dec 21, 2014, 8:05 AM Ryan Svihla <rsvi...@datastax.com> wrote: > >> Puppet, Chef, Ansible and I'm sure many others. I've personally worked >> with a number of people on all three, a quick google for "Puppet Cassandra" >> will give you a large number of examples and modules just for Puppet and >> Cassandra. >> >> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Adaryl "Bob" Wakefield, MBA < >> adaryl.wakefi...@hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> I have a three node cluster that I’m using to learn how to work with >>> disturbed software. There is this thing called Puppet that helps you with >>> deploying software. Can/should I use Puppet to install Cassandra on my >>> cluster or is there some sort of built in network wide deployment in the >>> install process already? >>> >>> B. >>> >> >> >> -- >> >> [image: datastax_logo.png] <http://www.datastax.com/> >> >> Ryan Svihla >> >> Solution Architect >> >> [image: twitter.png] <https://twitter.com/foundev> [image: linkedin.png] >> <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ryan-svihla/12/621/727/> >> >> DataStax is the fastest, most scalable distributed database technology, >> delivering Apache Cassandra to the world’s most innovative enterprises. >> Datastax is built to be agile, always-on, and predictably scalable to any >> size. With more than 500 customers in 45 countries, DataStax is the >> database technology and transactional backbone of choice for the worlds >> most innovative companies such as Netflix, Adobe, Intuit, and eBay. >> >> -- [image: datastax_logo.png] <http://www.datastax.com/> Ryan Svihla Solution Architect [image: twitter.png] <https://twitter.com/foundev> [image: linkedin.png] <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ryan-svihla/12/621/727/> DataStax is the fastest, most scalable distributed database technology, delivering Apache Cassandra to the world’s most innovative enterprises. Datastax is built to be agile, always-on, and predictably scalable to any size. With more than 500 customers in 45 countries, DataStax is the database technology and transactional backbone of choice for the worlds most innovative companies such as Netflix, Adobe, Intuit, and eBay.
