Announcing the Release of Reaper 3.1 for Apache Cassandra
The K8ssandra team is pleased to announce the release of Reaper 3.1. Let’s dive into the features and improvements that 3.0 recently introduced (along with some notable removals) and how …
Setting Up a Kubernetes CronJob to Create Medusa Backups
If you’ve been following the awesome workshop on the K8ssandra repository or just deployed your first cluster, you are probably wondering: How am I going to automate helm commands to …
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 …
Save hours on your setup of K8ssandra with the new config builder
Setting up K8ssandra in your workflow just got a whole lot easier. With the new Config Builder you can be running Apache Cassandra® on Kubernetes in a matter of minutes. …
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 …
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. …