I just submitted a new PR for hawkular services:
https://github.com/hawkular/hawkular-services/pull/22
This re-introduces the ability to build Hawkular Services with embedded Cassandra if you
want.
This will ONLY embed Cassandra IF you build with the special Maven profile -Pembeddedc.
If you never build with that profile, Hawkular Services will build as it does now (that
is, requires you to install and start your own Cassandra separately).
So this will allow developers to continue doing what they've been doing (that is, no
need to run a standalone C*) if they want.
Again, the default build is NOT to embed Cassandra. You must explicitly tell Maven you
want to embed C* via -Pembeddedc to get this feature.