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. …
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 …
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, 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 …
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 …