Dear Christopher I tried the answer and it works (at least the stopping bit). I still need to test persistence bit which to be honest might take time considering that I am more rubbish in K8S than Cassandra. I had created an question on SO. Please feel free to provide your answer there.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64253051/temporarily-stopping-k8s-and-cassandra-cluster?noredirect=1#comment113633984_64253051 thanks Manu Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 From: Christopher Bradford<mailto:bradfor...@gmail.com> Sent: 08 October 2020 05:47 To: user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org> Subject: Re: Reducing no. of nodes to 0 without losing data cass-operator has a parameter spec.stopped ( https://github.com/datastax/cass-operator/blob/master/operator/example-cassdc-yaml/cassandra-3.11.x/example-cassdc-full.yaml#L65) when set to true the underlying stateful sets are scaled down to 0 while keeping the persistent volumes. This allows you to reduce your k8s cluster size while not losing data. When you want to bring the cluster back up change the parameter back to false. On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 12:40 AM Oleksandr Shulgin <oleksandr.shul...@zalando.de<mailto:oleksandr.shul...@zalando.de>> wrote: On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 12:21 AM Manu Chadha <manu.cha...@hotmail.com<mailto:manu.cha...@hotmail.com>> wrote: Hi I have created a Cassandra cluster on Kubernetes using cass-operator on gcp. It is for my personal experimentation. To avoid incurring cost, I want to stop the cluster when I am not using it and start it when I need it without losing data. Is there a way to do so? Would setting number of size to 0 in example-cassdc-minimal.yaml stop the compute resources without losing data? If I change the size to 3 again later, would the existing data be picked? Depending if the operator is going to accept the size as 0 at all, but most probably not with the following policy in your storage class, as in the example[1]: reclaimPolicy: Delete You need some persistent storage and a suitable reclaim policy. [1]: https://docs.datastax.com/en/cass-operator/doc/cass-operator/cassOperatorCloserLookConfiguration.html#CreateandapplyaStorageClass Regards, -- Alex -- Christopher Bradford
