[CASSANDRASC-13] Work related to adding required features from DS Management API to C* Sidecar

• Type: Epic
• Status: Triage Needed
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Configuration, Rest API
• Epic Name: Integrate DS Management API into Sidecar project
• Assignee: T Jake Luciani
• Reporter: T Jake Luciani
• Created: 30/Mar/20 14:54
• Updated: 06/Feb/24 22:02

Description

This ticket covers the work required to migrate work done in the Management API by DataStax into the official C* Sidecar.

For the most part this should be relatively simple as both have a similar approach.  Some of the differences are highlighted below.

 

• Local access only.
      - Each sidecar process is responsible for the local c* instance
•  CQL communication only.
      - Communication between Management API and C* is via CQL only
      - A simple CQL -> method mechanism is added to C* resulting in the ability to execute statements like: "CALL NodeOps.compact('keyspace');"
•  Secure by default.
      - The Management API talks to C* via a local unix socket.
      - The Management API has its own local unix socket so local tools can communicate securely.
      - Optional Mutual TLS support for secure services
      - Disables default cassandra/cassandra superuser
•  No configuration file
      - Keeps deployments simple
•  Hooks into Existing C* releases by utilizing a new java agent.

 

The java agent would obviously not be needed here.  But I do like the option of supporting older releases with this approach. Thoughts?

 

Happy to discuss in this ticket before starting any work.  Please checkout the linked project above.