Running Cassandra and Docker: Reaper, Monitoring, and Logging

Hey everyone!

For our October meetup join Joaquin Casares of The Last Pickle in a code-heavy presentation of how he uses Docker Compose to start all of his new projects for his day job, clients, and side projects.

The presentation will come with a companion Github repository that contains a Docker Compose setup with Cassandra, Reaper for Apache Cassandra, a sample asynchronous application using the DataStax Python Driver for Apache Cassandra, and a simple Docker logging example. Other useful shortcuts will also be provided that compliment the Docker Compose workflow.

To get the most out of the project, we recommend installing the following software before the meeting:

Docker Engine (for Mac): https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/install/ Docker Engine (Ubuntu): https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/linux/docker-ce/ubuntu/ Docker Compose: https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/ Feel free to bring your Cassandra, Docker, development, and production questions since we hope to cover many use cases! While we will not cover production-specific deployments in-depth (for which we recommend Kubernetes), we can discuss different deployment patterns and development/production disconnects that emerge as projects mature. Hope to see you all there!

Schedule:

6:30-7:00 - Pizza and drinks

7:00-8:00 - Running Cassandra and Docker: Reaper, Monitoring, and Logging

8:00-8:30 - Q & A