title: Best way to configure multinode cassandra cluster deployment
body: <p>Although I have worked with cassandra at application level, I do not have deployment experience. For my grad project, I need to deploy cassandra to multiple nodes in futuregrid.org just wondering if there are any tools to deploy cassandra just by giving hostnames and few conf options.</p>
  
  <p>Otherwise I have wrote a small deployment script but I am not able to figure out how to create single cassandra.yaml file that can be used to instantiate all instances of cassandra by ssh-ing to those nodes. <a href="http://www.datastax.com/docs/0.8/install/cluster_init" rel="nofollow">This page</a> seems to hint that we might need to create separate configurations per node and then instantiate them, but I might be missing something.</p>
  
  <p>Some background regarding my setup:</p>
  
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  <li>I am using resources from futuregrid.org, you can assume that each node is similar to other, so I strictly do not need separate conf.</li>
  <li>I am using DSE 4 version.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Please advise. Any pointers on either of these would be great.</p>