Cassandra Installation with Helm

External

• https://artifacthub.io/packages/helm/bitnami/cassandra
• https://hub.docker.com/_/cassandra

Internal

• Cassandra Installation
• Third Party Helm Charts

Overview

This article refers to the bitnami Cassandra chart.

helm repo add bitnami https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami
helm install my-release bitnami/cassandra

Configuration

JVM Heap Parameters

Add the following to the configuration overlay:

extraEnvVars:
  - name: JVM_OPTS
    value: '-Xms4G -Xmx4G -Xmn1G'

The -Xms, -Xmx and -Xmn values defined here will take precedence and will override the values calculated by the startup scripts.