Deploying Cassandra on EC2 with Whirr

cassandra-on-ec2.sh

# Cassandra on EC2 using Apache Whirr trunk (18 January 2012)

# Clone the repo from the Apache servers

git clone git://git.apache.org/whirr.git
cd whirr

#  build binary artefacts on your machine

mvn clean install 

# add your credentials here

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY= 

# make sure you have pair of keys in ~/.ssh/

# start a cluster

./bin/whirr launch-cluster --config recipes/cassandra-ec2.properties

# list the nodes

./bin/whirr list-cluster --config recipes/cassandra-ec2.properties

# login using SSH

ssh <remote-machine-public-ip>

# destroy the cluster

./bin/whirr destroy-cluster --config recipes/cassandra-ec2.properties