On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 7:04 PM, 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. >
auto_bootstrap is orthogonal to joining or not joining the ring. https://engineering.eventbrite.com/changing-the-ip-address-of-a-cassandra-node-with-auto_bootstrapfalse/ Explains why. Basically joining a node without bootstrapping just means it gets a range but doesn't get streamed the data for that range. That's almost never what you want, unless you're doing the above operation while replacing a node. I +1 that the real problem is nodes auto-starting cassandra, ever. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2356 =Rob
