Cassandra Tutorial 3, Part 1: Deploy Cassandra with Ansible and SSH Keys - Modern DevOps Practices 2025
Cassandra Tutorial 3, Part 1: Modern Cassandra Deployment with Ansible - 2025 Edition
What’s New in 2025
This updated tutorial reflects the significant changes in DevOps practices since our original 2017 guide:
- Container-First Approach: Cassandra deployments now primarily use containers (Docker/Podman)
- Kubernetes Native: StatefulSets and operators for managing Cassandra clusters
- GitOps Workflows: Using ArgoCD or Flux for declarative cluster management
- Modern Ansible: Ansible 2.16+ with collections and execution environments
- Enhanced Security: Zero-trust networking, service mesh integration, and secrets management
- Cloud Provider Integration: Native support for AWS, GCP, and Azure Kubernetes services
- Observability: Built-in Prometheus metrics and distributed tracing
Overview
In this modernized tutorial, we’ll deploy a production-ready Cassandra cluster using: