Re: TLP tools for stress testing and building test clusters in AWS

2019-05-05 Thread Anthony Grasso
Hi Stefan.

Sorry for the late reply. Just wanted to close the loop on this.

Glad you found the demo useful.

On related node, we found out what the issues was when we were going
through the demo. It was to do with one of the AZs in our account being
unavailable. Even though AWS says an AZ exists, it may still be unavailable
for use. When provisioning a cluster, you might get an error like this in
the log:

aws_instance.cassandra.3: Error launching source instance: Unsupported:
> Your requested instance type (r3.2xlarge) is not supported in your
> requested Availability Zone (us-west-2d). Please retry your request by not
> specifying an Availability Zone or choosing us-west-2c, us-west-2a,
> us-west-2b.


To address this, we've added an --azs flag which can be used as a
workaround when an AZ unavailable. You can use it by supplying the letter
of the AZ you want. For example --azs abc.

Regards,
Anthony


On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 at 15:49, Stefan Miklosovic <
stefan.mikloso...@instaclustr.com> wrote:

> Thanks Anthony for going that proverbial extra mile to cover people in
> different time zones too.
>
> I believe other people will find your talk as helpful as we did.
>
> Regards
>
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 at 10:08, Anthony Grasso 
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Stefan and devs,
> >
> > I have set up a zoom link for the TLP tool set intro that will be on in
> an
> > hours time (17 April 2019 @ 11:00AM AEST): https://zoom.us/j/272648772
> >
> > This link is open so if anyone else wishes to join they are welcome to do
> > so. I will be covering the same topics Jon is covering in his meeting
> > tomorrow.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Anthony
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 at 08:29, Anthony Grasso 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Stefan,
> > >
> > > Thanks for sending the invite out!
> > >
> > > Just wondering what do you think of the idea of having a Zoom meeting
> that
> > > anyone can join? This way anyone else interested can join us as well.
> I can
> > > set that up if you like?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Anthony
> > >
> > > On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 at 21:24, Stefan Miklosovic <
> > > stefan.mikloso...@instaclustr.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi Anthony,
> > >>
> > >> sounds good. I ve sent you Hangouts meeting invitation privately.
> > >>
> > >> Regards
> > >>
> > >> On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 at 14:53, Anthony Grasso <
> anthony.gra...@gmail.com>
> > >> wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > Hi Stefan,
> > >> >
> > >> > I have been working with Jon on developing the tool set. I can do a
> Zoom
> > >> > call tomorrow (Wednesday) at 11am AEST if that works for you? We
> can go
> > >> > through all the same information that Jon is going to go through in
> his
> > >> > call. Note that I am in the same timezone as you, so if tomorrow
> > >> morning is
> > >> > no good we can always do the afternoon.
> > >> >
> > >> > Cheers,
> > >> > Anthony
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 at 22:38, Stefan Miklosovic <
> > >> > stefan.mikloso...@instaclustr.com> wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > > Hi Jon,
> > >> > >
> > >> > > I would like be on that call too but I am off on Thursday.
> > >> > >
> > >> > > I am from Australia so 5pm London time is ours 2am next day so
> your
> > >> > > Wednesday morning is my Thursday night. Wednesday early morning so
> > >> > > your Tuesday morning and London's afternoon would be the best.
> > >> > >
> > >> > > Recording the thing would be definitely helpful too.
> > >> > >
> > >> > > On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 at 07:45, Jon Haddad 
> wrote:
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > I'd be more than happy to hop on a call next week to give you
> both
> > >> > > > (and anyone else interested) a tour of our dev tools.  Maybe
> > >> something
> > >> > > > early morning on my end, which should be your evening, could
> work?
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > I can set up a Zoom conference to get everyone acquainted.  We
> can
> > >> > > > record and post it for any who can't make it.
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > I'm thinking Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday morning, 9AM
> Pacific
> > >> (5pm
> > >> > > > London)?  If anyone's interested please reply with what dates
> work.
> > >> > > > I'll be sure to post the details back here with the zoom link in
> > >> case
> > >> > > > anyone wants to join that didn't get a chance to reply, as well
> as a
> > >> > > > link to the recorded call.
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > Jon
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 10:41 AM Benedict Elliott Smith
> > >> > > >  wrote:
> > >> > > > >
> > >> > > > > +1
> > >> > > > >
> > >> > > > > I’m also just as excited to see some standardised workloads
> and
> > >> test
> > >> > > bed.  At the moment we’re benefiting from some large contributors
> > >> doing
> > >> > > their own proprietary performance testing, which is super
> valuable and
> > >> > > something we’ve lacked before.  But I’m also keen to see some more
> > >> > > representative workloads that are reproducible by anybody in the
> > >> community
> > >> > > take shape.
> > >> > > > >
> > >> > > > >
> > >> > > > > > On 12 Apr 2019, at 18:09, 

GSoD update: new mail list for inbounds

2019-05-05 Thread Nate McCall
Hi Folks,
For those that have offered to help GSoD efforts, please subscribe to the
following list publicly accessible, but moderated list:
gsod2...@cassandra.apache.org

Ie. as with any ASF list, send an email to
gsod2019-subscr...@cassandra.apache.org  with
SUBSCRIBE as the subject, reply to the follow-up and you should be all set.

This list will be primarily used to field initial inbound Q with
potential doc writers. I would like to push technical questions to the dev
list for wider exposure.

Thanks,
-Nate