Re: How do you do automatic restacking of AWS instance for cassandra?

My approach is the obvious taking a big outage window especially at work we are using 1.2 and is using token range. I am generally a believer that (1) patches should be applied, but (2) routinely we replace each host with a new EC2, so (1) I know my infrastructure code (puppet/chef/ansible/salt

Re: How do you do automatic restacking of AWS instance for cassandra?

This is in fact an interesting security practice that makes sense. It assumes the existing ami had security holes that WERE ALREADY exploited. See if you can negotiate moving the hdfs volumes to persistent storage. Fyi two major banks I have worked with did much the same, but as the storage was

Re: How do you do automatic restacking of AWS instance for cassandra?

Hi Surbhi, Please see my comment inline below. On 28 May 2017 at 12:11, Jeff Jirsa wrote: > > > On 2017-05-27 18:04 (-0700), Surbhi Gupta > wrote: > > Thanks a lot for all of your reply. > > Our requirement is : > > Our company releases AMI almost

Re: How do you do automatic restacking of AWS instance for cassandra?

I understand that, but I'm not sure your point. If you used ebs, you could stop one instance at a time, swap out your OS drive via new AMI, and start it again attached to your existing data drive, and bounce a whole cluster in a rolling manner, perhaps 5 minutes per node. If you don't want to

Re: How do you do automatic restacking of AWS instance for cassandra?

On 05/27/2017 09:13 PM, Surbhi Gupta wrote: > We get the new AMI release with the new OS updates and we are not > allowed to use the old AMI . Neither of Jeff's suggestions use the old AMI - that was my suggestion :) > On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 7:11 PM Jeff Jirsa

Re: How do you do automatic restacking of AWS instance for cassandra?

We get the new AMI release with the new OS updates and we are not allowed to use the old AMI . On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 7:11 PM Jeff Jirsa wrote: > > > > > On 2017-05-27 18:04 (-0700), Surbhi Gupta > wrote: > > > Thanks a lot for all of your reply.

Re: How do you do automatic restacking of AWS instance for cassandra?

On 2017-05-27 18:04 (-0700), Surbhi Gupta wrote: > Thanks a lot for all of your reply. > Our requirement is : > Our company releases AMI almost every month where they have some or the > other security packages. > So as per our security team we need to move our

Re: How do you do automatic restacking of AWS instance for cassandra?

Just OS security updates? This sounds far more complicated than a simple `apt-get upgrade` or `yum update` every month. If there happens to be new kernel that month, throw in a `reboot`, too. I'd argue that OS updates should be done when needed, sometimes in a much faster cycle than monthly, in

Re: How do you do automatic restacking of AWS instance for cassandra?

Thanks a lot for all of your reply. Our requirement is : Our company releases AMI almost every month where they have some or the other security packages. So as per our security team we need to move our cassandra cluster to the new AMI . As this process happens every month, we would like to

Re: How do you do automatic restacking of AWS instance for cassandra?

Hi Surbhi, The only time I've heard of restacking, it was a specific term a financial services company used internally to describe a security related procedure specific to them. If this sounds like you/the company you work for, send me a PM because I don't believe I can share those details in a

Re: How do you do automatic restacking of AWS instance for cassandra?

What is restacking? *Daemeon C.M. ReiydelleUSA (+1) 415.501.0198London (+44) (0) 20 8144 9872* *“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they

How do you do automatic restacking of AWS instance for cassandra?

Hi, Wanted to understand, how do you do automatic restacking of cassandra nodes on AWS? Thanks Surbhi