Manage Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra resources using Azure CLI

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01/13/2023
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This article describes common commands to automate the management of your Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra clusters using Azure CLI.

Prerequisites

Use the Bash environment in Azure Cloud Shell. For more information, see Quickstart for Bash in Azure Cloud Shell.
If you prefer to run CLI reference commands locally, install the Azure CLI. If you're running on Windows or macOS, consider running Azure CLI in a Docker container. For more information, see How to run the Azure CLI in a Docker container.
- If you're using a local installation, sign in to the Azure CLI by using the az login command. To finish the authentication process, follow the steps displayed in your terminal. For other sign-in options, see Sign in with the Azure CLI.
- When you're prompted, install the Azure CLI extension on first use. For more information about extensions, see Use extensions with the Azure CLI.
- Run az version to find the version and dependent libraries that are installed. To upgrade to the latest version, run az upgrade.

Important

This article requires the Azure CLI version 2.30.0 or higher. If you are using Azure Cloud Shell, the latest version is already installed.

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Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra clusters

The following sections demonstrate how to manage Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra clusters, including:

Create a managed instance cluster
Delete a managed instance cluster
Get the cluster details
Get the cluster node status
List clusters by resource group
List clusters by subscription ID

Create a managed instance cluster

Create an Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra cluster by using the az managed-cassandra cluster create command:

resourceGroupName='MyResourceGroup'
clusterName='cassandra-hybrid-cluster'
location='West US'
delegatedManagementSubnetId='/subscriptions/<subscription id>/resourceGroups/customer-vnet-rg/providers/Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/customer-vnet/subnets/management'
initialCassandraAdminPassword='myPassword'

# You can override the cluster name if the original name is not legal for an Azure resource.
# overrideClusterName='ClusterNameIllegalForAzureResource'
# the default Cassandra version is v3.11

az managed-cassandra cluster create \
    --cluster-name $clusterName \
    --resource-group $resourceGroupName \
    --location $location \
    --delegated-management-subnet-id $delegatedManagementSubnetId \
    --initial-cassandra-admin-password $initialCassandraAdminPassword \

Delete a managed instance cluster

Delete a cluster by using the az managed-cassandra cluster delete command:

resourceGroupName='MyResourceGroup'
clusterName='cassandra-hybrid-cluster'

az managed-cassandra cluster delete \
    --cluster-name $clusterName \
    --resource-group $resourceGroupName

Get the cluster details

Get cluster details by using the az managed-cassandra cluster show command:

resourceGroupName='MyResourceGroup'
clusterName='cassandra-hybrid-cluster'

az managed-cassandra cluster show \
    --cluster-name $clusterName \
    --resource-group $resourceGroupName

Get the cluster node status

Get cluster details by using the az managed-cassandra cluster node-status command:

clusterName='cassandra-hybrid-cluster'
resourceGroupName='MyResourceGroup'

az managed-cassandra cluster status \
    --cluster-name $clusterName \
    --resource-group $resourceGroupName

List the clusters by resource group

List clusters by resource group by using the az managed-cassandra cluster list command:

subscriptionId='MySubscriptionId'
resourceGroupName='MyResourceGroup'

az managed-cassandra cluster list\
    --resource-group $resourceGroupName

List clusters by subscription ID

List clusters by subscription ID by using the az managed-cassandra cluster list command:

# set your subscription id
az account set -s <subscriptionID>

az managed-cassandra cluster list

The managed instance datacenters

The following sections demonstrate how to manage Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra datacenters, including:

Create a datacenter
Delete a datacenter
Get datacenter details
Get datacenters in a cluster
Update or scale a datacenter
Update Cassandra configuration

Create a datacenter

Create a datacenter by using the az managed-cassandra datacenter create command:

resourceGroupName='MyResourceGroup'
clusterName='cassandra-hybrid-cluster'
dataCenterName='dc1'
dataCenterLocation='eastus2'
delegatedSubnetId='/subscriptions/<SubscriptionID>/resourceGroups/customer-vnet-rg/providers/Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/customer-vnet/subnets/dc1-subnet'
virtualMachineSKU='Standard_D8s_v4'
noOfDisksPerNode=4

az managed-cassandra datacenter create \
    --resource-group $resourceGroupName \
    --cluster-name $clusterName \
    --data-center-name $dataCenterName \
    --data-center-location $dataCenterLocation \
    --delegated-subnet-id $delegatedSubnetId \
    --node-count 3 
    --sku $virtualMachineSKU \
    --disk-capacity $noOfDisksPerNode \
    --availability-zone false

Note

The value for --sku can be chosen from the following available SKUs:

Standard_E8s_v4
Standard_E16s_v4
Standard_E20s_v4
Standard_E32s_v4
Standard_DS13_v2
Standard_DS14_v2
Standard_D8s_v4
Standard_D16s_v4
Standard_D32s_v4

Note also that --availability-zone is set to false. To enable availability zones, set this to true. Availability zones increase the availability SLA of the service. For more details, review the full SLA details here.

Warning

Availability zones are not supported in all regions. Deployments will fail if you select a region where Availability zones are not supported. See here for supported regions. The successful deployment of availability zones is also subject to the availability of compute resources in all of the zones in the given region. Deployments may fail if the SKU you have selected, or capacity, is not available across all zones.

Delete a datacenter

Delete a datacenter by using the az managed-cassandra datacenter delete command:

resourceGroupName='MyResourceGroup'
clusterName='cassandra-hybrid-cluster'
dataCenterName='dc1'

az managed-cassandra datacenter delete \
    --resource-group $resourceGroupName \
    --cluster-name $clusterName \
    --data-center-name $dataCenterName

Warning

If you have more than one datacenter in your cluster, you must remove any references to the datacenter you are trying to delete in any keyspace replication strategy settings first. This command will fail if there are still references to the datacenter in any keyspaces within your cluster.

Get datacenter details

Get datacenter details by using the az managed-cassandra datacenter show command:

resourceGroupName='MyResourceGroup'
clusterName='cassandra-hybrid-cluster'
dataCenterName='dc1'

az managed-cassandra datacenter show \
    --resource-group $resourceGroupName \
    --cluster-name $clusterName \
    --data-center-name $dataCenterName

Update or scale a datacenter

Update or scale a datacenter (to scale change nodeCount value) by using the az managed-cassandra datacenter update command:

resourceGroupName='MyResourceGroup'
clusterName='cassandra-hybrid-cluster'
dataCenterName='dc1'

az managed-cassandra datacenter update \
    --resource-group $resourceGroupName \
    --cluster-name $clusterName \
    --data-center-name $dataCenterName \
    --node-count 13

Update Cassandra configuration

Change Cassandra configuration on a datacenter by using the az managed-cassandra datacenter update command. You will need to base64 encode the YAML fragment by using an online tool.

For example, the following YAML fragment:

column_index_size_in_kb: 16
read_request_timeout_in_ms: 10000

When encoded, the YAML is converted to: Y29sdW1uX2luZGV4X3NpemVfaW5fa2I6IDE2CnJlYWRfcmVxdWVzdF90aW1lb3V0X2luX21zOiAxMDAwMA==.

See below:

resourceGroupName='MyResourceGroup'
clusterName='cassandra-hybrid-cluster'
dataCenterName='dc1'
dataCenterLocation='eastus'
yamlFragment='Y29sdW1uX2luZGV4X3NpemVfaW5fa2I6IDE2CnJlYWRfcmVxdWVzdF90aW1lb3V0X2luX21zOiAxMDAwMA=='

az managed-cassandra datacenter update \
    --resource-group $resourceGroupName \
    --cluster-name $clusterName \
    --data-center-name $dataCenterName \
    --base64-encoded-cassandra-yaml-fragment $yamlFragment