Introducing the K8ssandra Cloud-Readiness Framework
The K8ssandra team recently released K8ssandra-operator v1.1. Even though K8ssandra is still evolving, a large number of features have been added ranging from multi-cluster support to restoring a Medusa backup from …
A Recap of Cass-Operator in 2021 and What’s Coming Next
While much of our content here focuses on K8ssandra Helm charts and the upcoming K8ssandra-operator, it should be noted that both use cass-operator to deploy the Cassandra parts. Since we …
Cassandra Certificate Management (Part 2): cert-manager and Kubernetes
The joys of certificate management Certificate management has long been a bugbear of enterprise environments, and expired certs have been the cause of countless outages. When managing large numbers of …
Cassandra Certificates Management (Part 1): How to Rotate Keys Without Downtime
Welcome to this two-part blog series where we dive into managing certificates in an Apache Cassandra® cluster. In this first post, we will focus on how to rotate keys in …
Deploying to Multiple Kubernetes Clusters with the K8ssandra Operator
We built the new K8ssandra Operator to simplify deploying multiple Apache Cassandra data centers in different regions and across multiple Kubernetes (K8s) clusters. We’re not at the finish line just …
Kubernetes and Apache Cassandra: What Works (and What Doesn’t)
“I need it now and I need it reliable” – anyone who hasn’t deployed application infrastructure If you’re on the receiving end of this statement, we understand you here in …
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 …