> > Erick, even if we give service as a contact point datastax driver will > calculate IPs of topology to connect the cluster. So I think as John > proposed in answer to similar question, after driver initialization in case > of total outage of Cassandra cluster, bouncing of application is the only > option. >
Correct. The point I was trying to make is that using the service means that you don't have to manage the contact points. Look into Patrick's recommendations too around Ingress services if you're accessing the C* cluster from outside the k8s cluster. I understand that Pushpendra's use case is that both the client apps and C* cluster are co-hosted in the same k8s cluster. Cheers!
