[CASSANDRA-15887] Document how to run Cassandra on Windows

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.x
• Component/s: Documentation
• Change Category: Operability
• Complexity: Normal
• Platform: All
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: João Reis
• Created: 19/Jun/20 13:05
• Updated: 30/Dec/22 03:08

Description

The "Getting Started" section on the website only has instructions about installing Cassandra on Linux.

It would help us drive Cassandra adoption if we had instructions for developers that want to run Cassandra on their Windows development environment.

We should include instructions on how to use the existing powershell scripts to run Cassandra on native Windows but the docs should recommend users to prefer using WSL2/Docker before attempting to run it natively in my opinion.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: CASSANDRA-16173 Update "Getting Started" document for Windows users