So you heard about this awesome new hosted Cassandra and wanted to kick the tires? But after setting up your favorite stack you realize that the secure connect bundle from Astra doesn’t seem to plug in anywhere. Suddenly easy doesn’t seem so easy anymore.
I’m going to walk you through one example of how you can connect an older CQL library to Astra. In this case we’ll be using Flask and CQLAlchemy. CQLAlchemy has something of a following in the Flask/Cassandra world but hasn’t seen an update in a while.
First, unzip the secure bundle you downloaded from Astra. You should see something like this:
$ ls secure-connect