The next thing I wanted setup for my development workspace is a DataStax Enterprise Cluster. This will give me all of the Apache Cassandra database features plus a lot of additional features around search, OpsCenter, analytics, and more. I’ll elaborate on that in some future posts. For now, let’s get an image built we can... Continue reading →

In part 1 of this series I setup Terraform and put together a basic setup for ongoing use. In part 2 I setup Packer and got a template started that installs Apache Cassandra 3.11.4. In this part there’s one more key piece. Really key piece for iterating and moving quickly with development needs on a... Continue reading →

Prerequisites before all of this. Have a basic understanding of how to use Terraform and what it does. This is covered pretty well in the Hashicorp Docs here (single page read <5 minutes) and if you have a LinkedIn Learning account check out my Terraform course “Learning Terraform“. Beyond that some basic CLI/terminal knowledge, understand... Continue reading →

I ran into this issue recently. The “Invalid JWT Signature.” error while running some Terraform. It appeared to occur whenever I was setting up a bucket in Google Cloud Platform to use for a back-end to store Terraform’s state. In console, here’s the exact error. My first quick searches uncovered some Github issues that looked... Continue reading →

NOTE: Video toward the bottom of the post with the timeline so you can navigate into certain points of the video where I speak to different topics. Cluster Nodes Currently First I start out this session with a simple issue I ran into the previous night. The fact that a variable in the name of... Continue reading →