Re: Syncing across environments

2012-01-15 Thread aaron morton
Sounds like you need a custom, manual solution. Cheers - Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 12/01/2012, at 9:09 AM, David McNelis wrote: > Right. > > One of the challenges though is if the key's wouldn't necessarily directly > transl

Re: Syncing across environments

2012-01-13 Thread quinteros8888
David McNelis wrote: >Is anyone familiar with any tools that are already available to allow for >configurable synchronization of different clusters? > >Specifically for purposes of development, i.e. Dev, staging, test, and >production cassandra environments, so that you can easily plug in the >

Re: Syncing across environments

2012-01-11 Thread David McNelis
Right. One of the challenges though is if the key's wouldn't necessarily directly translate. Say I've got a MySQL instance in my Dev VM and my keys are based on PKs in that database...but my MySQL instance by nature of what I'm working on has some different IDs...so in some way I'd need to mu

Re: Syncing across environments

2012-01-11 Thread aaron morton
You can use chef for setting up the cluster and pull snapshots down for the data. That will require a 1 to 1 mapping between the prod and dev / QA clusters. That way you can also test the DevOps processes for deployment and disaster recovery. Cheers - Aaron Morton Freelance

Re: Syncing across environments

2012-01-11 Thread David McNelis
Not currently using any of those tools (though certainly an option, just never looked into them). Those tools seem more based around configuration of your environments...where I'm more concerned with backfilling data from production to early-stage environments to help facilitate development. Stil

Re: Syncing across environments

2012-01-11 Thread aaron morton
Nothing Cassandra specific that I am aware of. Do you have any ops automation such as chef or puppet ? Data Stax make their chef cook books available here https://github.com/riptano/chef Cheers - Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 11

Syncing across environments

2012-01-10 Thread David McNelis
Is anyone familiar with any tools that are already available to allow for configurable synchronization of different clusters? Specifically for purposes of development, i.e. Dev, staging, test, and production cassandra environments, so that you can easily plug in the information that you want to fi