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Step 1: Deploy cassandra statefulset and PVCs​

Following spec creates a replica 3 cassandra statefulset. Each replica pod will use its own PVC.

##### Portworx storage class
kind: StorageClass
apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1
metadata:
name: portworx-repl2
provisioner: kubernetes.io/portworx-volume
parameters:
repl: "2"
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
labels:
app: cassandra
name: cassandra
spec:
clusterIP: None
ports:
- port: 9042
selector:
app: cassandra

---

apiVersion: "apps/v1"
kind: StatefulSet
metadata:
name: cassandra
spec:
selector:
matchLabels:
app: cassandra
serviceName: cassandra
replicas: 3
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: cassandra
spec:
containers:
- name: cassandra
image: gcr.io/google-samples/cassandra:v12
imagePullPolicy: Always
ports:
- containerPort: 7000
name: intra-node
- containerPort: 7001
name: tls-intra-node
- containerPort: 7199
name: jmx
- containerPort: 9042
name: cql
resources:
limits:
cpu: "500m"
memory: 1Gi
requests:
cpu: "500m"
memory: 1Gi
securityContext:
capabilities:
add:
- IPC_LOCK
lifecycle:
preStop:
exec:
command: ["/bin/sh", "-c", "PID=$(pidof java) && kill $PID && while ps -p $PID > /dev/null; do sleep 1; done"]
env:
- name: MAX_HEAP_SIZE
value: 512M
- name: HEAP_NEWSIZE
value: 100M
- name: CASSANDRA_SEEDS
value: "cassandra-0.cassandra.default.svc.cluster.local"
- name: CASSANDRA_CLUSTER_NAME
value: "K8Demo"
- name: CASSANDRA_DC
value: "DC1-K8Demo"
- name: CASSANDRA_RACK
value: "Rack1-K8Demo"
- name: CASSANDRA_AUTO_BOOTSTRAP
value: "false"
- name: POD_IP
valueFrom:
fieldRef:
fieldPath: status.podIP
- name: POD_NAMESPACE
valueFrom:
fieldRef:
fieldPath: metadata.namespace
readinessProbe:
exec:
command:
- /bin/bash
- -c
- /ready-probe.sh
initialDelaySeconds: 15
timeoutSeconds: 5
# These volume mounts are persistent. They are like inline claims,
# but not exactly because the names need to match exactly one of
# the stateful pod volumes.
volumeMounts:
- name: cassandra-data
mountPath: /cassandra_data
# These are converted to volume claims by the controller
# and mounted at the paths mentioned above.
volumeClaimTemplates:
- metadata:
name: cassandra-data
labels:
app: cassandra
annotations:
volume.beta.kubernetes.io/storage-class: portworx-repl2
spec:
accessModes: [ "ReadWriteOnce" ]
resources:
requests:
storage: 2Gi

Step 2: Wait for all cassandra pods to be running​

List the cassandra pods:

kubectl get pods -l app=cassandra
NAME          READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
cassandra-0 1/1 Running 0 3m
cassandra-1 1/1 Running 0 2m
cassandra-2 1/1 Running 0 1m

Once you see all the 3 pods, you can also list the cassandra PVCs.

kubectl get pvc -l app=cassandra
NAME                         STATUS    VOLUME                                     CAPACITY   ACCESS MODES   STORAGECLASS        AGE
cassandra-data-cassandra-0 Bound pvc-ff752ad9-1607-11e9-a9a4-080027ee1df7 2Gi RWO stork-snapshot-sc 3m
cassandra-data-cassandra-1 Bound pvc-ff767dcf-1607-11e9-a9a4-080027ee1df7 2Gi RWO stork-snapshot-sc 2m
cassandra-data-cassandra-2 Bound pvc-ff78173c-1607-11e9-a9a4-080027ee1df7 2Gi RWO stork-snapshot-sc 1m
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