Setting up a Cassandra cluster with SSL for client and cluster transports for DevOps
Setting up client and cluster SSL transport for a Cassandra cluster
This articles is a Cassandra tutorial on Cassandra setup for SSL and CQL clients, as well as installing Cassandra with SSL configured on a series of Linux servers.
Cassandra allows you to secure the client transport (CQL) as well as the cluster transport (storage transport).
SSL/TLS have some overhead. This is especially true in the JVM world which is not as performant for handling SSL/TLS unless you are using Netty/OpenSSl integration.