These are Terraform modules that deploy DataStax Enterprise (DSE) on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). They are developed jointly by Oracle and DataStax.
This Quick Start uses OCI Resource Manager to make deployment easy, sign up for an OCI account if you don't have one, and just click the button below:
After logging into the console you'll walk through the selection of variables for
the deployment. You'll then select Terraform Actions -> Apply on the stack created, and be able
to see the progress of resource creation in the logs in the console. Once that's
complete follow the instructions in the Login to DataStax Lifecycle Manager
section below. Note, these templates generate an ssh key pair on the fly for
LCM -> node connections. The private key is in the terraform state file, therefore
treat it as a secret.
Note, if you fork this repo you'll need to change the link for the button to point at your repo.
If you prefer to develop locally, ie by running the terraform command
you'll need to do some pre deploy setup. That's all detailed here.
Now, you'll want a local copy of this repo. You can make that with the commands:
git clone https://github.com/oracle-quickstart/oci-datastax.git
cd oci-datastax
ls
You need to rename provider.tf.cli -> provider.tf. This is because
authentication works slightly differently in ORM vs the CLI.
We now need to initialize the directory with the module in it. This makes the module aware of the OCI provider. You can do this by running:
terraform init
This gives the following output:
Now for the main attraction. Let's make sure the plan looks good:
terraform plan
That gives:
If that's good, we can go ahead and apply the deploy:
terraform apply
You'll need to enter a password shared by the cassandra user and OpsCenter admin user,
and then yes when prompted. The apply should take about five minutes to run.
Once complete, you'll see something like this:
When the apply is complete, the infrastructure will be deployed, but cloud-init scripts will still be running. Those will wrap up asynchronously. OpsCenter and Lifecycle Manager (LCM) will probably be up five minutes after you run apply. The cluster might take another ten minutes to build after that. Now is a good time to get a coffee.
When the terraform apply completed, it printed out the URLs for OpsCenter and LCM. Let's check out LCM first. Open a browser to the URL from the output.
The username is admin and the password is whatever you specified in variables.tf.
In this case, the job isn't done yet. If we drill down on clusters we can see that the nodes have been added but LCM hasn't yet SSH'd into them to install DSE.
Similarly, if we check out the job, we see it hasn't run yet.
Checking back a few minutes later, we see the job is complete!
Now that the LCM job is all done, let's take a look at OpsCenter. Open up a browser to that URL. It was printed as output when terraform apply completed.
If everything ran ok, you should see a ring with the number of nodes you specified in variables.tf.
You can also login to the web console here to view the IaaS that is running the cluster.
These machines are using Ubuntu 16. The default login is ubuntu. You can SSH into the machine with a command like this:
ssh -i ~/.ssh/oci ubuntu@<Public IP Address>
You can debug deployments by investigating the cloud-init log file /var/log/cloud-init-output.log.
If you want to get started interacting with the database you can run cqlsh with the default user cassandra and whatever password you chose when prompted. For instance:
cqlsh -u cassandra -p <password you chose>
This gives:
When you no longer need the DSE cluster, you can run this to delete the deployment:
terraform destroy
You'll need to enter yes when prompted. Once complete, you'll see something like this:
