[CASSANDRA-15635] Script to autogenerate cassandra.yaml

• Type: Improvement
• Status: In Progress
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Local/Config, Local/Scripts
• Labels: gsoc2021 mentor
• Change Category: Operability
• Complexity: Normal
• Platform: All
• Assignee: Mitesh Gupta
• Reporter: Dinesh Joshi

Authors

Mitesh Gupta

Reviewers

Paulo Motta

• Created: 11/Mar/20 17:15
• Updated: 16/May/21 17:08

Description

It would be useful to have a script that can ask the user a few questions and generate a recommended cassandra.yaml based on their answers. This will help solve issues like selecting num_tokens. It can also be integrated into OS specific packaging tools such as debconf[1]. Rather than just documenting on the website, it is best to provide a simple script to auto-generate configuration based on common use-cases.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/debconf