Remote Cassandra

Astro is able to connect Impulse to a remote Cassandra by setting the domain in the astro.conf file.

ENV Vars

There are multiple Cassandra environment variables that can be set to customize the connection to Cassandra.

• CASSANDRA_DOMAIN_NAME

  • Set the domain name for the remote Cassandra.

  • Accepts both IP port and docker container name.

  • i.e., CASSANDRA_DOMAIN_NAME=db or CASSANDRA_DOMAIN_NAME=10.0.1.60

• CASSANDRA_USERNAME

  • Set the Cassandra username to connect to the database.

  • i.e., CASSANDRA_USERNAME=cassUser

• CASSANDRA_PASSWORD

  • Set the Cassandra password to connect to the database.

  • i.e., CASSANDRA_USERNAME=cassPass

• CASSANDRA_SSL_CERT

  • Set the Cassandra ssl cert to connect to the database.

  • i.e., CASSANDRA_SSL_CERT=/path/to/cert or CASSANDRA_SSL_CERT=casscert

Start Astro without Cassandra

When connecting to a remote Cassandra, you will likely want to start Astro without a local Cassandra container. To do this add the --no-db option to the astro start command

./astro.sh start --no-db