Dennis created CASSANDRA-13815:
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Summary: RPM package for client tools - cqlsh + nodetool
Key: CASSANDRA-13815
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13815
Project: Cassandra
Issue Type: Wish
Components: Packaging
Reporter: Dennis
Fix For: 3.11.x, 3.10
Feature request.
I see you guys are picking up on the RPM packages.
Thanks for that. That could even be improved if you could package the client
tools as a separate or client-only package as well. That package could hold
cqlsh and nodetool for example.
That would support centralized, automated backup or other maintenance
processes.
Now the admin is forced to login to the box in order to use these tools, which
is not really best practice, security wise. The admin would need to know an ssh
account as well as the cassandra admin account.
So, benefits or usage of a client package (cqlsh+nodetool):
# Supports automated maintenance scripts (simply yum the client tools to a
temporary vm)
# Better security, as the admin doesn't need to ssh into the instance host.
Without having to pull the full Cassandra packages on the clients.
Datastax does have such client packages, but they don't support the community
edition anymore, so I am hoping that you can do this going forward.
Thanks!
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