Cloud-Native Workshop: Apache Cassandra meets Kubernetes
Apache Cassandra® is used in cloud-native applications that require massive resilience and scalability. With multiple nodes replicating data all the time, we need advanced knowledge and tooling to understand the …
How to Migrate an Existing Cluster to K8ssandra-operator Without Any Downtime
With our recent release of K8ssandra-operator v1.0.0 – our brand new Kubernetes operator for K8ssandra – the next question is how to upgrade from K8ssandra v1.x or from Apache CassandraⓇ …
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 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 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.
K8ssandra, the future essential data standard for Kubernetes?
In this article on the French language site Journal du Net, Xavier Biseul examines the state of databases on Kubernetes, including Cassandra (quote is translated): Was the union between Cassandra …
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 …
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: …