Launch ScyllaDB on GCP¶

Prerequisites¶

• Active GCP account

• Google SDK, which includes the gcloud command-line tool

• ScyllaDB Image requires at least 2 vCPU servers.

Launching ScyllaDB on GCP¶

1. Choose an instance type. See Cloud Instance Recommendations for GCP for the list of recommended instances.

   Other instance types will work, but with lesser performance. If you choose an instance type other than the recommended ones, make sure to run the scylla_setup script.

2. See the following table to obtain image information for the latest patch release. For earlier releases, see GCP Images

   6.0.4¶

   View image details

   Image Name	Image ID
   scylladb-6-0-4	5215863022418167664

3. Launch a ScyllaDB instance on GCP with gcloud using the information from the previous step. Use the following syntax:

   gcloud compute instances create <name of new instance> --image <ScyllaDB image name> --image-project < ScyllaDB project name> --local-ssd interface=nvme --zone <GCP zone - optional> --machine-type=<machine type>
   

   For example:

   gcloud compute instances create scylla-node1 --image scylladb-5-2-1 --image-project scylla-images --local-ssd interface=nvme --machine-type=n1-highmem-8
   

   To add more storage to the VM, add multiple --local-ssd interface=nvme options to the command. For example, the following command will launch a VM with 4 SSD, and 1.5TB of data (4 * 375 GB):

   gcloud compute instances create scylla-node1 --image scylladb-5-2-1 --image-project scylla-images --local-ssd interface=nvme --local-ssd interface=nvme --local-ssd interface=nvme --local-ssd interface=nvme --machine-type=n1-highmem-8
   

   For more information about GCP image create see the Google Cloud SDK documentation.

4. (Optional) Configure firewall rules.

   Ensure that all ScyllaDB ports are open.

5. Connect to the servers:

   gcloud compute ssh <name of the created instance>
   

   For example:

   gcloud compute ssh scylla-node1
   

   To check that the ScyllaDB server and the JMX component are running, run:

   nodetool status
   

Next Steps¶

• Configure ScyllaDB

• Manage your clusters with ScyllaDB Manager

• Monitor your cluster and data with ScyllaDB Monitoring

• Get familiar with ScyllaDB’s command line reference guide.