Dial C* for Operator: Unlocking Advanced Cassandra Configurations
Cass-operator is an Apache Cassandra operator for Kubernetes managed as part of the K8ssandra project. There are a lot of configuration options available that are not necessarily obvious at first. …
How to connect stateful workloads across Kubernetes clusters
In his article on the DataStax blog, Roman Chernobelskiy shares how the Astra team created a lightweight overlay network in order to allow Cassandra nodes in different Kubernetes clusters to …
Why a Cloud-Native Database Must Run on K8s
In this article on Container Journal, I make the case for why a database needs to run on Kubernetes in order to be considered truly cloud-native. Key quote: If we’re …
K8ssandra at Data on Kubernetes Day
There was no better way to kick off KubeCon EU than with Data on Kubernetes Community Day on Monday, May 3. K8ssandra featured in a number of sessions presented by …
K8ssandra and the Community
Welcome to the refreshed K8ssandra site. Here we combined our love of Apache Cassandra™ and Kubernetes™ to create this experience for everyone to be inclusive, entertaining, motivating and valuable. The …
A Maturity Model for Cloud-Native Databases
In this article on Container Journal, Cedrick Lunven and I propose a model for evaluating the maturity of databases claiming to be “cloud native”. The levels in this model include: …
Kubernetes Data Simplicity: Getting started with K8ssandra
K8ssandra team member Jeff Banks walks new developers through steps to run a Cassandra cluster in Kubernetes on a local machine and start working with the code in a development …
Backing up K8ssandra with MinIO
Learn how to set up K8ssandra and MinIO to backup Cassandra in just a few steps.