Connect to Cassandra Apache with SSL using cassandra-driver in Node.js

Question

I try connect to my Cassandra but I have probably wrongly configured. I run it on localhost. Cassandra has generated certificated and add on. In cqlsh there are no errors wi

Answer 1

You must specify an Object instance in sslOption property to enable ssl on the driver.

Using your code sample:

var fs = require('fs');
var sslOptions = {
  key : fs.readFileSync('client-key.pem'),
  cert : fs.readFileSync('client-cert.pem'),
  ca : [fs.readFileSync('server-cert.pem')]
};
var client = new cassandra.Client({
  contactPoints : ['127.0.0.1'],
  authProvider : new cassandra.auth.PlainTextAuthProvider('cassandra', 'cassandra'),
  sslOptions : sslOptions
});

If you do not use client certificates, you can just use an empty object instance:

var client = new cassandra.Client({
  contactPoints : ['127.0.0.1'],
  authProvider : new cassandra.auth.PlainTextAuthProvider('cassandra', 'cassandra'),
  sslOptions : {}
});

And it will use the defaults specified in the Node.js tls module.