Retry connection to Cassandra node upon startup : <p>I want to use Docker to start my application and Cassandra database, and I would like to use Docker Compose for that. Unfortunately, Cassandra starts much slower than my application, and since my application eagerly initializes the <code>Cluster</code> object, I get the following exception:</p>

<pre><code>com.datastax.driver.core.exceptions.NoHostAvailableException: All host(s) tried for query failed (tried: cassandra/172.18.0.2:9042 (com.datastax.driver.core.exceptions.TransportException: [cassandra/172.18.0.2:9042] Cannot connect))
    at com.datastax.driver.core.ControlConnection.reconnectInternal(ControlConnection.java:233)
    at com.datastax.driver.core.ControlConnection.connect(ControlConnection.java:79)
    at com.datastax.driver.core.Cluster$Manager.init(Cluster.java:1454)
    at com.datastax.driver.core.Cluster.init(Cluster.java:163)
    at com.datastax.driver.core.Cluster.connectAsync(Cluster.java:334)
    at com.datastax.driver.core.Cluster.connectAsync(Cluster.java:309)
    at com.datastax.driver.core.Cluster.connect(Cluster.java:251)
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<p>According to the stacktrace and a little debugging, it seems that Cassandra Java driver does not apply retry policies to the initial startup. This seems kinda weird to me. Is there a way for me to configure the driver so it will continue its attempts to connect to the server until it succeeds?</p>
