Adding nodes to our cluster

Now, let's extend our node to a five-node cluster from a three-node cluster. Let's take two new loopback IPs as 127.0.0.4 and 127.0.0.5.

Note

Here, we're using loopback IPs for the simplicity of our example; if you're running using the same on a single machine, ensure that it has enough RAM and CPU on the host machine.

The cassandra.yaml file with key configuration options for these two new nodes will look as follows:

Adding nodes to our cluster

A sample cassandra.yaml file for node 5 with some key configuration parameters is shown in the following image. Here, both the nodes are using node 2 with the IP address 127.0.0.2 as the seed node:

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