Recently I did the Microsoft Azure Fundamentals exam and passed, nonetheless this experience was totally different from previous exams and certifications earned in the past, and probably many colleagues have felt the same. Let me try to explain to you about my professional context and why I think that this exam is a must for any IT professional and how a lot of knowledge acquired on Azure is perfectly portable to other Cloud providers.

The aim of this post is to show you a specific and useful tip in Python for replacing strings with matched values contained in a dictionary, for this task that could sound trivial but in the practice may represent an interesting challenge.

This is the last article of the series about “Configuring a Cassandra Cluster in the Cloud” composed of three articles, the first article was about the architecture of the Cassandra Cluster and complete prerequisites, in the second article we walked through the setup process for installing Cassandra, and finally, in this article, we will be developing all the steps for completing our solution in Azure.  I would like to highlight that these particular series include Azure as the cloud platform, however, the first two articles can be considered agnostic in terms of the mechanisms and approaches used for the main configuration of the Cassandra Cluster.

This article is the second of the series about configuring a Cassandra Cluster in Azure. In the previous one we have completed the installation of Cassandra in a new Virtual Machine (VM) in Azure, this VM will become our template for creating new nodes based on it.  In this article we will be covering the next sections:

• Localize key files
• Configuring our Cluster (cluster name, seed nodes)
• Adding more configuration to Cassandra through yaml file
• Configuring RPC (service, interface, and address)
• Deleting data directory