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Reclaiming Persistent Volumes in Kubernetes
Learn how to manually reassign a PersistentVolume from one StatefulSet to another. Also learn about the STS, PV, and PVC API resources in greater detail.
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How the world caught up with Apache Cassandra
The O’Reilly book, Cassandra: The Definitive Guide, features a quote from Ray Kurzweil, the noted inventor and futurist: “An invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.” This quote …
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A Quick Glance at the Kubernetes Gateway API
The idea behind the Gateway API is to have a clean separation between standard objects and the proprietary implementation.
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Multi-cluster Cassandra deployment with Google Kubernetes Engine (Pt. 2)
This is the second in a series of posts examining patterns for using K8ssandra to create Cassandra clusters with different deployment topologies.
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Running your Database on OpenShift and CodeReady Containers
An introductory run-through of setting up your database on OpenShift, using your own hardware and RedHat’s CodeReady Containers.
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Deploy a Multi-Datacenter Apache Cassandra Cluster in Kubernetes (Pt. 1)
Today let’s examine different Kubernetes deployment patterns and show how to implement them using K8ssandra.
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Kubernetes and the Data Centre: Is Full Scale Migration Possible?
Using Kubernetes as a standard layer will help everyone to control how and where applications run and data gets created.
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Why a Cloud-Native Database Must Run on K8s
We’ve been talking about migrating workloads to the cloud for a long time, but a look at the application portfolios of many IT organizations demonstrates that there’s still a lot of work to be done. In many cases, challenges with …
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The End of the Beginning for Apache Cassandra
Editor’s note: This story originally ran on July 27, 2021, the day that Apache Cassandra 4.0 was released. Today is a big day for those of us in the Apache Cassandra community. After a long uphill climb, Apache Cassandra 4.0 has finally shipped. …
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K8ssandra ramps up security features to match Kubernetes’ best practices
New security features are coming to the open-source data platform: K8ssandra. The goal? To align even more with the security best practices of Kubernetes. Here’s an introduction to the platform’s security mission and an update on current initiatives. The security …
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Managing Distributed Applications in Kubernetes Using Cilium and Istio with Helm and Operator for Deployment
This post will show you the benefits of managing your distributed applications with Kubernetes in cross-cloud, multi-cloud, and hybrid cloud scenarios using Cilium and Istio with Helm and Operator for deployment. In our recent post on The New Stack, we showed …
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Interview with Tom Granot – Developer Observability, KoolKits and Reliability
In preparation for the upcoming Developer Observability Masterclass we’re hosting at Lightrun with Thoughtworks, RedMonk and JFrog, I sat down for a brief interview with Tom Granot – the Director of Developer Relations at Lightrun. Tom will MC the event …
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Introducing KoolKits: OSS Debugging Toolkits for Kubernetes
KoolKits (Kubernetes toolkits) are highly-opinionated, language-specific, batteries-included debug container images for Kubernetes. In practice, they’re what you would’ve installed on your production pods if you were stuck during a tough debug session in an unfamiliar shell. To briefly give some …
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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. The purpose of K8ssandra is to make it easy to …
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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 the virtues of the Helm package manager versus Kubernetes operators for deploying and managing …
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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 you through a database migration from a Cassandra cluster running …
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Deploying to Multiple Kubernetes Clusters with the K8ssandra Operator
Let’s learn about the new K8ssandra Operator that simplifies deploying multiple Apache Cassandra data centers in different regions
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Backing up K8ssandra with MinIO
K8ssandra includes Medusa for Apache Cassandra® to handle backup and restore for your Cassandra nodes. Recently Medusa was upgraded to introduce support for all S3 compatible backends, including MinIO, the popular k8s-native object storage suite. Let’s see how to set up …
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Unboxing K8ssandra: The Data Layer For Your Kubernetes-Powered Applications
A Complimentary Live Webinar, Sponsored by DataStax Kubernetes made it easy to deploy and scale out your cloud-native applications. With K8ssandra, you can now scale application data with the same simplicity and high availability. Join us as we unbox K8ssandra a …
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Introducing the GKE Autopilot Cluster
Google’s fully managed Kubernetes services, GKE Autopilot, is a completely managed and serverless “Kubernetes as a service” offering.
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Taking Your Database Beyond a Single Kubernetes Cluster
Running a database (or indeed any application) across multiple regions or K8s clusters is tricky without proper care and planning up front.
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