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k8ssandra - learning by doing!

Learn the challenges of Data on Kubernetes using k8ssandra in a few steps!

1. Watch the renditions of the workshop on youtube

• DataStax workshop (March 2021)
• Kubecon EU 2021 (May 2021)

2. Do the practice steps <-- YOU ARE HERE
3. Ask your questions (chat or forum)

Practice

This is by no means a theoretical exercise. You will "learn by doing." Follow the steps to power up your newly learned skills!

Before starting

To follow along with the hands-on exercises during the workshop, there 2 possibilities:

• Local/Civo installs: Your own [local] installation or using the Kubernetes provider Civo, spin up a cluster remotely.
• Datastax provided VMs: Provided cloud instance (contact Aleks in case of any questions)

Notice that training cloud instances will be available only during the workshop and will be terminated 24 hours later. If you are in our workshop we recommend using the provided cloud instance, you can relax as we have you covered: prerequisites are installed already. If you are doing this on your own using your own computer or your own cloud node, please check the requirements and install the missing tools as explained Here. You need to have a docker-ready machine with at least a 4-core + 8 GB RAM.

First Step (DO THIS FIRST)

• Local install: Check out the prerequisites and install missing software before we start!
• Civo install: First check out the requirements for local install and then install Civo.
• Datastax provided VMs: Using the Cloud Node provided by DataStax? Connect to the node at first!

⚡ IMPORTANT NOTE: Everywhere in this repo you see <YOURADDRESS> replace it with

• Local/Civo install: localhost
• Datastax provided VMs: the URL for the instance you were given.

✅ Step 0: Clone the workshop repo

This step is applicable only for for Local/Civo install.

Clone the workshop repository, which contains YAML files and other supporting material with the following command

git clone https://github.com/k8ssandra/workshop && cd workshop

We recommend using the gitpod cloud-based IDE if you are a beginner and new to git.

✅ Step 1: Next Step

Done with configuration and ready to go? Let's start! Proceed to the Step I