Datastax Enterprise (Dse) Installation & Configuration

Learn Installation & Configuration of most popular Cassandra distribution : DataStax Enterprise

What you'll learn

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) Installation & Configuration

DataStax Enterprise

Requirements

Knowledge of Apache Cassandra

Knowledge of working with Linux Servers

Description

*** This training course was recorded during April/May 2021. All the content is still valid. ***DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the most popular enterprise grade distribution of Apache Cassandra.In this course we will start with download and installation of CentOS Linux Operating System version 7.9 on our servers. We will learn how to disable Security Enhanced Linux and firewalld options. We will create and configure mountpoints required for our DataStax Enterprise. We will create Operating System User Group and Operating System User for DataStax Enterprise.We will discuss about various options available in DataStax Enterprise.We will configure Password-less SSH between our servers.We will download DataStax Enterprise Software from DataStax website.We will learn all the details about Installation and Configuration of DataStax Enterprise.We will learn about how to properly start and shutdown DataStax Enterprise.We will enable Authentication and Authorization.We will build a 6 node DSE Cluster which will span across multiple data centers.We will configure and enable DSE Analytics. We will use Spark and Spark SQL shells to understand how to use Apache Spark to interact with data stored in our DSE Cassandra.We will download, configure and use DSE OpsCenter.We will download and use DataStax Studio.We will configure and enable Audit Logging and we will review audit.log file.We will configure and enable DSE Search. We will create search indexes and we will learn how to use them.

Overview

Section 1: Operating System Setup On Servers

Lecture 1 Installation of CentOS Linux 7.9

Lecture 2 Initial Server Configuration

Lecture 3 Configure Network Adapters

Lecture 4 Prepare Mountpoints for DSE & Disable Swap

Section 2: Build 3 Node DataStax Enterprise (DSE) Cluster

Lecture 5 Prepare Cassandra User For DSE

Lecture 6 Download DSE Software

Lecture 7 Extract DSE Software

Lecture 8 cassandra.yaml

Lecture 9 Few More Configuration Files

Lecture 10 3 Node DSE Cluster

Section 3: Authentication & Authorization

Lecture 11 Topic Review & Prerequisites Check

Lecture 12 dse.yaml

Lecture 13 Restart DSE + User Roles & Permissions

Section 4: Build A Multi Data Center DSE Cluster

Lecture 14 DSE Software Folder Structure

Lecture 15 Add 3 New Nodes in New Data Center

Lecture 16 Replication Factor Settings

Section 5: DSE Analytics / Apache Spark

Lecture 17 Enable DSE Analytics

Lecture 18 DSE Spark Shell & Spark SQL Shell

Section 6: DSE OpsCenter

Lecture 19 DSE OpsCenter Software

Lecture 20 DSE OpsCenter

Section 7: DataStax Studio

Lecture 21 DataStax Studio

Section 8: Audit Logging

Lecture 22 Audit Logging

Section 9: DSE Search

Lecture 23 DSE Search

Section 10: Bonus Stuff

Lecture 24 Documentation

Lecture 25 Instructor

Lecture 26 November 2021 Update

Section 11: Learning Never Ends

Lecture 27 Conclusion

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