Using environment variables

DS_LICENSE

accept

To show and acknowledge the license, set the variable DS_LICENSE to the value accept.

Important: Setting the DS_LICENSE environment variable signals your acceptance of the DataStax terms of service and is required for the software to start.

LISTEN_ADDRESS

IP_address

IP address to listen for connections from other nodes.

Defaults to the container IP address.

BROADCAST_ADDRESS

IP_address

IP address to advertise to other nodes.

Defaults to the same value as LISTEN_ADDRESS.

NATIVE_TRANSPORT_ADDRESS

IP_address

IP address to list for client and driver connections.

Default: 0.0.0.0.

NATIVE_TRANSPORT_BROADCAST_ADDRESS

IP_address

IP address to advertise to clients and drivers.

Defaults to the same value as BROADCAST_ADDRESS.

SEEDS

IP_address

Comma-delimited list of seed nodes for the cluster.

Defaults to the node BROADCAST_ADDRESS.

START_NATIVE_TRANSPORT

boolean

Determines whether to start the Thrift RPC server.

If not set, the default value is preserved in the cassandra.yaml file.

CLUSTER_NAME

string

Name of the cluster.

Default: Test Cluster.

NUM_TOKENS

int

Number of tokens randomly assigned to the node.

Default: 8.

DC

string

Datacenter name.

Default: Cassandra.

RACK

string

Rack name.

Default: rack1.

OPSCENTER_IP

IP_address

Address of the OpsCenter instance to use for DSE management.

The value can be specified by linking the OpsCenter container using opscenter as the name.

JVM_EXTRA_OPTS

string

Sets a custom value for the JVM heap using -Xmx and -Xms.

LANG

string

Sets a custom locale.

SNITCH

string

Sets the snitch implementation this node will use.

The value is set in the endpoint_snitch parameter in cassandra.yaml.