Re: Easy path to the latest Cassandra in Ubuntu

2016-06-29 Thread Evan Dandrea
Thanks for following up, Dave, Michael, and Jonathan. On Sun, 26 Jun 2016 at 11:04 Jonathan Ellis wrote: > Is Snap a new packaging format like deb/rpm, or does it consume the > existing deb package? > It's a new packaging format. Each application is isolated such that it cannot see beyond its o

Re: Easy path to the latest Cassandra in Ubuntu

2016-06-27 Thread Michael Shuler
On 06/27/2016 09:59 AM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > How would I deploy a cluster with Snap? > > With the package I can pre-deploy my configuration to the node with cluster > name, seeds, etc. With Snap do I have to build a custom container to do > that? Or is there some way to pull in config from th

Re: Easy path to the latest Cassandra in Ubuntu

2016-06-27 Thread Jonathan Ellis
How would I deploy a cluster with Snap? With the package I can pre-deploy my configuration to the node with cluster name, seeds, etc. With Snap do I have to build a custom container to do that? Or is there some way to pull in config from the host machine or a config server? Aside: there's at 3

Re: Easy path to the latest Cassandra in Ubuntu

2016-06-27 Thread Michael Shuler
On 06/26/2016 11:03 AM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > > Is Snap a new packaging format like deb/rpm, or does it consume the > existing deb package? It's an LXD container delivery system. -- Kind regards, Michael

Re: Easy path to the latest Cassandra in Ubuntu

2016-06-26 Thread Dave Brosius
I notice that snapcraft.io already lists Cassandra as having a snap available on the front page. On 06/26/2016 12:03 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: Hi Evan, Is Snap a new packaging format like deb/rpm, or does it consume the existing deb package? On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 8:26 PM, Evan Dandrea wrot

Re: Easy path to the latest Cassandra in Ubuntu

2016-06-26 Thread Jonathan Ellis
Hi Evan, Is Snap a new packaging format like deb/rpm, or does it consume the existing deb package? On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 8:26 PM, Evan Dandrea wrote: > Hi, > > Ubuntu 16.04 comes with a new way to deliver applications ( > http://snapcraft.io), and I thought it would be a great way to simplify

Easy path to the latest Cassandra in Ubuntu

2016-06-21 Thread Evan Dandrea
Hi, Ubuntu 16.04 comes with a new way to deliver applications ( http://snapcraft.io), and I thought it would be a great way to simplify getting set up with Cassandra. So now, if you run the following on any Ubuntu 16.04 system snap install cassandra && snap connect cassandra:mount-observe ub