diff --git a/ddd/src/test/resources/com/baeldung/dddhexagonalspring/cassandra.cql b/ddd/src/test/resources/com/baeldung/dddhexagonalspring/cassandra-init.cql
similarity index 61%
rename from ddd/src/test/resources/com/baeldung/dddhexagonalspring/cassandra.cql
rename to ddd/src/test/resources/com/baeldung/dddhexagonalspring/cassandra-init.cql
index 7adeda0a51..cbb22d2525 100644
--- a/ddd/src/test/resources/com/baeldung/dddhexagonalspring/cassandra.cql
+++ b/ddd/src/test/resources/com/baeldung/dddhexagonalspring/cassandra-init.cql
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 CREATE KEYSPACE IF NOT exists order_database
 WITH replication = {'class':'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor':1};
 
-CREATE TYPE order_database.orderitementity (productid uuid, price decimal); 
+CREATE TYPE IF NOT EXISTS order_database.orderitementity (productid uuid, price decimal); 
 
-CREATE TABLE order_database.orderentity(
+CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS order_database.orderentity(
    id uuid,
    status text,
    orderitementities list<frozen<orderitementity>>,
diff --git a/ddd/src/test/resources/com/baeldung/dddhexagonalspring/docker-compose.yml b/ddd/src/test/resources/com/baeldung/dddhexagonalspring/docker-compose.yml
index dfad875a2b..7de0d30d43 100644
--- a/ddd/src/test/resources/com/baeldung/dddhexagonalspring/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/ddd/src/test/resources/com/baeldung/dddhexagonalspring/docker-compose.yml
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ version: '3'
 services:
   order-mongo-database:
     image: mongo:3.4.13
+    container_name: order-mongo-db
     restart: always
     ports:
       - 27017:27017
@@ -14,6 +15,16 @@ services:
       - ./mongo-init.js:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/mongo-init.js:ro
   order-cassandra-database:
     image: cassandra:3.11.5
+    container_name: order-cassandra-db
     restart: always
     ports: 
-        - 9042:9042
\ No newline at end of file
+      - 9042:9042
+  order-cassandra-init:
+    image: cassandra:3.11.5
+    container_name: order-cassandra-db-init
+    depends_on:
+      - order-cassandra-database
+    volumes:
+      - ./cassandra-init.cql:/cassandra-init.cql:ro
+    command: bin/bash -c "echo Initializing cassandra schema... && sleep 30 && cqlsh -u cassandra -p cassandra -f cassandra-init.cql order-cassandra-db" 
+      
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ddd/src/test/resources/ddd-layers-test.properties b/ddd/src/test/resources/ddd-layers-test.properties
index 32307581aa..d41689d91b 100644
--- a/ddd/src/test/resources/ddd-layers-test.properties
+++ b/ddd/src/test/resources/ddd-layers-test.properties
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-spring.autoconfigure.exclude=org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.mongo.embedded.EmbeddedMongoAutoConfiguration
+spring.autoconfigure.exclude=org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.mongo.embedded.EmbeddedMongoAutoConfiguration,org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jdbc.DataSourceAutoConfiguration 
 spring.data.mongodb.host=127.0.0.1
 spring.data.mongodb.port=27017
 spring.data.mongodb.database=order-database