/.search-results /.search-form Home Tags Categories Code With Target Feed Cassandra + Jenkins + Chef 13 Sep 2014 in Infrastructure 7 minutes read This past week, Target open-sourced our first project, a Chef cookbook for Apache Cassandra. This cookbook is the exact version we use to manage our production Cassandra environment. I want to go in to some more detail about how the cookbook is used and how we automate our Cassandra deployment. The cookbook we open-sourced is the main cookbook we use to install Cassandra. In order to manage multiple clusters with this cookbook I created a wrapper cookbook to use on top of the dse cookbook. A wrapper cookbook is usually used on top of a community cookbook so you don’t have to edit the upstream code. I needed a way to manage our cluster (and its different environments) in a way that...