Re: Operating on large cluster

2014-10-23 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Hi Alain, We use Puppet and introducing Ansible at Sematext. Not for Cassandra, but for other similar tech. Otis -- Monitoring * Alerting * Anomaly Detection * Centralized Log Management Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/ On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 5:18 AM, Alain RODRIGUEZ wrote

Re: Operating on large cluster

2014-10-23 Thread Roni Balthazar
Hi, We use Puppet to manage our Cassandra configuration. (http://puppetlabs.com) You can use Cluster SSH to send commands to the server as well. Another good choice is Saltstack. Regards, Roni On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 5:18 AM, Alain RODRIGUEZ wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering about how do you

Re: Operating on large cluster

2014-10-23 Thread Eric Plowe
I am a big fan of perl-ssh-tools (https://github.com/tobert/perl-ssh-tools) to let me manage my nodes and SVN to store configs. ~Eric Plowe On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Michael Shuler wrote: > On 10/23/2014 04:18 AM, Alain RODRIGUEZ wrote: > >> I was wondering about how do you guys handle

Re: Operating on large cluster

2014-10-23 Thread Michael Shuler
On 10/23/2014 04:18 AM, Alain RODRIGUEZ wrote: I was wondering about how do you guys handle a large cluster (50+ machines). Configuration management tools are awesome, until they aren't. Having used or played with all the popular ones, and having been bitten by failures of those tools on larg

Re: Operating on large cluster

2014-10-23 Thread Ranjib Dey
We use chef for configuration management and blender for on demand jobs https://github.com/opscode/chef https://github.com/PagerDuty/blender On Oct 23, 2014 2:18 AM, "Alain RODRIGUEZ" wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering about how do you guys handle a large cluster (50+ > machines). > > I mean ther

Re: Operating on large cluster

2014-10-23 Thread Jens Rantil
Hi, While I am nowhere close to 50+ machines I've been using Saltstack for both configuration management as well as remote execution. I has worked great for me and supposedly scales to 1000+ machines. Cheers, Jens — Sent from Mailbox On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Alain RODRIGUEZ wr

Operating on large cluster

2014-10-23 Thread Alain RODRIGUEZ
Hi, I was wondering about how do you guys handle a large cluster (50+ machines). I mean there is sometime you need to change configuration (cassandra.yaml) or send a command to one, some or all nodes (cleanup, upgradesstables, setstramthoughput or whatever). So far we have been using things like