cassandrainitationworkshop

Cassandra first workshop

Installation & Setup

1. Make sure the following items have been installed on your machine:

   • Java 7 or 8
   • Git (if you like a pretty interface to deal with git, try SourceTree)
   • Maven

2. Install Oracle VirtualBox https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

3. Install Vagrant https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html (on Mac and Windows the installer will make sure that vagrant command is known in the command prompt)

4. Clone this repository into your workspace

5. Open a command prompt, go to the cassandrainitiationworkshop/vagrant folder and run

   vagrant up

   This will start up the vagrant box. The first time will take a while as it has to download the OS image and other dependencies.

   Shutting down the vagrant box can be done by typing

   vagrant halt

   You can restore the environment back to a clean, working state (in case things go south) by typing

   vagrant provision

   You can SSH into the virtual environment with

   vagrant ssh

   And when you're done playing around, you can remove all traces of it with

   vagrant destroy

6. Import the maven projects into IDE of your choice

7. Run the tests of to verify everything has been setup correctly

Known issues

• IntelliJ users: In some rare cases you might need to set the working directory in the running configurations to $MODULE_DIR$

  To avoid this issue, we'll be using a 32bit box for this workshop.