Preparing Standalone Cassandra Inside Docker Container

Overview

You can run Cassandra locally (or on another machine) as a Docker container. The latter has advantages over installing & running Cassandra natively, as the setup is easier. See Docker Hub for more information.

Docker Compose

You can manage Cassandra on your development setup using Docker Compose. Here is a sample docker-compose.yml file:

version: '3.1'

services:
  cassandra:
    container_name: cassandra
    image: cassandra:3.11.2
    ports:
      - 9042:9042

With the above file in place, execute the docker-compose up cassandra command to bring up a single-node Cassandra. You can connect to it once you see log entries like these:

INFO  [main] 2018-04-14 17:41:04,821 NativeTransportService.java:70 - Netty using native Epoll event loop
INFO  [main] 2018-04-14 17:41:05,060 Server.java:155 - Using Netty Version: [netty-buffer=netty-buffer-4.0.44.Final.452812a, netty-codec=netty-codec-4.0.44.Final.452812a, netty-codec-haproxy=netty-codec-haproxy-4.0.44.Final.452812a, netty-codec-http=netty-codec-http-4.0.44.Final.452812a, netty-codec-socks=netty-codec-socks-4.0.44.Final.452812a, netty-common=netty-common-4.0.44.Final.452812a, netty-handler=netty-handler-4.0.44.Final.452812a, netty-tcnative=netty-tcnative-1.1.33.Fork26.142ecbb, netty-transport=netty-transport-4.0.44.Final.452812a, netty-transport-native-epoll=netty-transport-native-epoll-4.0.44.Final.452812a, netty-transport-rxtx=netty-transport-rxtx-4.0.44.Final.452812a, netty-transport-sctp=netty-transport-sctp-4.0.44.Final.452812a, netty-transport-udt=netty-transport-udt-4.0.44.Final.452812a]
INFO  [main] 2018-04-14 17:41:05,073 Server.java:156 - Starting listening for CQL clients on /0.0.0.0:9042 (unencrypted)...