K8ssandra 1.3 release supports Cassandra 4.0
The K8ssandra team has just published the 1.3 release. The really big deal is support for the Apache Cassandra™ 4.0 release, but there’s plenty of other goodness here as well. …
Why we decided to build a K8ssandra operator – Part 4
In the first, second, and third posts in this series, we’ve shared conversations with K8ssandra core team members on our journey to build a Kubernetes operator for K8ssandra. We’ve discussed …
Why we decided to build a K8ssandra operator – Part 3
In the first and second posts in this series in this series, we’ve shared recent conversations with K8ssandra core team members about the initial decision to create K8ssandra as a …
Why we decided to build a K8ssandra operator – Part 2
In the first post in this series, John Sanda talked about how the K8ssandra team leveraged the Helm package manager to quickly deliver the first few releases of the project. …
Why we decided to build a K8ssandra operator
Part 1 of 4 As a distribution of Apache Cassandra built from multiple open source components, K8ssandra was originally installed and managed via a collection of Helm charts. This has …
Multi-cluster Cassandra deployment with Google Kubernetes Engine
This is the second in a series of posts examining patterns for using K8ssandra to create Cassandra clusters with different deployment topologies. In the first article in this series, we …
Cassandra Database Migration to Kubernetes with Zero Downtime
K8ssandra is a cloud-native distribution of the Apache Cassandra® database that runs on Kubernetes, with a suite of tools to ease and automate operational tasks. In this post, we’ll walk …
Deploy a multi-datacenter Apache Cassandra cluster in Kubernetes
Learn how to create a multi-datacenter Apache Cassandra cluster in Kubernetes using the K8ssandra project and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
K8ssandra performance benchmarks on cloud managed Kubernetes
Is there a cost to running Apache Cassandra in containers? How about on Kubernetes? We decided to answer those questions and benchmark K8ssandra on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud …
What Is a Cloud Native Database (Faun.dev)?
In this article posted to the DevOps news site Faun.dev, Aymen Eon Amri defines a cloud native database as “a database that is designed to take full advantage of cloud …
K8ssandra v1.2.0 and Cass Operator v1.7.1 Releases
The K8ssandra v1.2.0 release adds support for the latest Apache Cassandra release, 4.0-RC1, and brings increased continuity to the ecosystem with the latest release of Cass Operator.