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Exercise 1 - Create an Astra instance

Access to the ASTRA service on url https://astra.datastax.com

Register and Login

Use your credentials to log in to ASTRA. Fill out the Log In dialog with your Constellation credentials, and click the Log In button - or register if you are one of the few people left on the earth without a Astra account.

This is the login form:

If you need, please sign up using the following form available with the register button:

Fill the Create New Database Form

As you don't have have any instances the login will route through the instance creation form. You will find below which values to enter for each field.

  • Set the Compute Size: For the work we are doing please use Free tier. You instance will be there forever, free of charge

  • Select the region: This is the region where your database will reside physically (choose one close to you or your users). For people in EMEA please use europe-west-1 idea here is to reduce latency.

  • Fill in the database name - killrvideocluster. While Astra allows you to fill in these fields with values of your own choosing, please follow our reccomendations to make the rest of the exercises easier to follow. If you don't, you are on your own! :)

  • Fill in the keyspace name - killrvideo. It's really important that you use the name killrvideo (with no 'e' in "killr") here in order for all the exercises to work well. We realize you want to be creative, but please just roll with this one today.

  • Fill in the Database User name - KVUser. Note the user name is case-sensitive. Please use the case we suggest here.

  • Fill in the password - KVPassword. Fill in both the password and the confirmation fields. Note that the password is also case-sensitive. Please use the case we suggest here.

  • Launch the database. Review all the fields to make sure they are as shown, and click the Launch Database button.

View your Database and connect

View your database. It may take 2-3 minutes for your database to spin up. You will receive an email at that point. But, go ahead and continue with the rest of the exercise now.

Once Database is ready you should see the following home page:

Let’s review the database you have configured. In the box on the top-left side of the window, you can see the database and keyspace name metadata. The box on the top-right describes the size and location of your database. The lower-left box shows your estimated cost. Once Astra initializes the database completely, the lower-right box will have connection details.

Open DataStax Studio

You can click on Launch Developer Studio blue button to start the tool. Please enter the credentials you used for Astra instance creation.

  • Fill in the Database User name - KVUser. Note the user name is case-sensitive. Please use the case we suggest here.

  • Fill in the password - KVPassword. Fill in both the password and the confirmation fields. Note that the password is also case-sensitive. Please use the case we suggest here.

TADA !