[CASSANDRA-8376] Add support for multiple configuration files (or conf.d)

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Omri Bahumi
• Created: 26/Nov/14 16:35
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:31
• Resolved: 04/Apr/16 18:28

Description

I'm using Chef to generate cassandra.yaml.
Part of this file is the "seed_provider", which is based on the Chef inventory.
Changes to this file (due to Chef inventory change, when adding/removing Cassandra nodes) cause a restart, which is not desirable.

The Chef way of handling this is to split the config file into two config files, one containing only the "seed_provider" and the other containing the rest of the config.
Only the latter will cause a restart to Cassandra.

This is achievable by either:
1. Specifying multiple config files to Cassandra
2. Specifying a conf.d directory

Issue Links

• is related to: CASSANDRA-5045 Add Configuration Loader to DatabaseDescriptor