I'd consider solving your root problem of "people are starting and stopping servers in prod accidentally" instead of making Cassandra more difficult to manage operationally.
On Thu Dec 18 2014 at 4:04:34 AM Ryan Svihla <[email protected]> wrote: > why auto_bootstrap=false? The documentation even suggests the opposite. If > you don't auto_bootstrap the node will take queries before it has copies of > all the data, and you'll get the wrong answer (it'd not be unlike using CL > ONE when you've got a bunch of dropped mutations on a single node in the > cluster). > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Ben Bromhead <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> >> - In Cassandra yaml set auto_bootstrap = false >> - Boot node >> - nodetool rebuild >> >> Very similar to >> http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/2.0/cassandra/operations/ops_add_dc_to_cluster_t.html >> >> On 18 December 2014 at 14:04, Kevin Burton <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I’m trying to figure out the best way to bootstrap our nodes. >>> >>> I *think* I want our nodes to be manually bootstrapped. This way an >>> admin has to explicitly bring up the node in the cluster and I don’t have >>> to worry about a script accidentally provisioning new nodes. >>> >>> The problem is HOW do you do it? >>> >>> I couldn’t find any reference anywhere in the documentation. >>> >>> I *think* I run nodetool repair? but it’s unclear.. >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Founder/CEO Spinn3r.com >>> Location: *San Francisco, CA* >>> blog: http://burtonator.wordpress.com >>> … or check out my Google+ profile >>> <https://plus.google.com/102718274791889610666/posts> >>> <http://spinn3r.com> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> >> Ben Bromhead >> >> Instaclustr | www.instaclustr.com | @instaclustr >> <http://twitter.com/instaclustr> | +61 415 936 359 >> > > > -- > > [image: datastax_logo.png] <http://www.datastax.com/> > > Ryan Svihla > > Solution Architect > > [image: twitter.png] <https://twitter.com/foundev> [image: linkedin.png] > <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ryan-svihla/12/621/727/> > > DataStax is the fastest, most scalable distributed database technology, > delivering Apache Cassandra to the world’s most innovative enterprises. > Datastax is built to be agile, always-on, and predictably scalable to any > size. With more than 500 customers in 45 countries, DataStax is the > database technology and transactional backbone of choice for the worlds > most innovative companies such as Netflix, Adobe, Intuit, and eBay. > >
