I've just created a page for this topic that we can use to collect some content: https://github.com/spodkowinski/cassandra-collab/blob/docs_firedrill/doc/source/operating/failure_scenarios.rst
I've invited both of you Malte and Benjamin as collaborators in github, so you can either push changes or use the github editor for changes. Let me know if that would work for you. On 01.03.2017 13:56, benjamin roth wrote: > @Doc: > http://cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest/ is built from the git repo. So > you can add documentation in doc/source and submit a patch. > I personally think that is not the very best place or way to build a > knowledge DB but thats what we have. > > > 2017-03-01 13:39 GMT+01:00 Malte Pickhan <malte.pick...@zalando.de > <mailto:malte.pick...@zalando.de>>: > > Hi, > > really cool that this discussion gets attention. > > You are right my question was quite open. > > For me it would already be helpful to compile a list like Ben > started with scenarios that can happen to a cluster > and what actions/strategies you have to take to resolve the incident > without loosing data and having a healthy cluster. > > Ideally we would add some kind of rating of hard the scenario is to > be resolved so that teams can go through a kind of learning curve. > > For the beginning I think it would already be sufficient to document > the steps how you can get a cluster into the situation which has > been described > in the scenario. > > Hope it’s a bit clearer now what I mean. > > Is there some kind of community space where we could start a > document for this purpose? > > Best, > > Malte > > > On 1 Mar 2017, at 13:33, Stefan Podkowinski <s...@apache.org > <mailto:s...@apache.org>> wrote: > > > > I've been thinking about this for a while, but haven't found a > practical > > solution yet, although the term "fire drill" leaves a lot of room for > > interpretation. The most basic requirements I'd have for these kind of > > trainings would start with automated cluster provisioning for each > > scenario (either for teams or individuals) and provisioning of > test data > > for the cluster, with optionally some kind of load generator > constantly > > running in the background. I started to work on some Ansible scripts > > that would do that on AWS a couple of months ago, but it turned out to > > be a lot of work with all the details you have to take care of. So I'd > > be happy to hear about any existing resources on that as well! > > > > > > On 01.03.2017 10:59, Malte Pickhan wrote: > >> Hi Cassandra users, > >> > >> I am looking for some resources/guides for firedrill scenarios > with apache cassandra. > >> > >> Do you know anything like that? > >> > >> Best, > >> > >> Malte > >> > >
