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Disaggregated Container Attached Storage – Yet Another Topology with What Purpose

Jul 31, 2022 by melissa

Container native storage is designed for Kubernetes and managed by Kubernetes. Ideally, it’s based on disaggregated NVMe storage for scalability and performance.  DataCore Chief Scientist Nick Connelly, shares the basics…

1000 node Cassandra cluster on Amazon’s EKS

Jul 25, 2022 by melissa

Apache Cassandra is a distributed database that does a great job with geo-distributed workloads. K8ssandra, on the other hand, makes it possible to run it on Kubernetes, equipped with backups…

Bringing Apache Cassandra closer to Kubernetes

Jul 23, 2022 by melissa

Aside from geo-distributed workloads, Apache Cassandra also works great as a stand-alone service. However, since Cassandra was built before Kubernetes existed, there’s a mismatch in how they do things.  In…

Leaning on Kubernetes Portability to Manage Databases Anywhere

Jul 11, 2022 by melissa

Kubernetes has the potential to change the game by enabling users to run complex databases anywhere they want. Its portability coupled with a SaaS user experience makes it a powerful…

DoK isn’t just Database on Kubernetes

Jun 27, 2022 by melissa

There are crucial parts one should consider in their infrastructure when going all-in on Kubernetes, as well as existing procedures that could deliver success once you go beyond deploying databases…

Databases Operations and the Cloud

Jun 11, 2022 by melissa

Database is one of the first-class citizens to run data on Kubernetes, and there are multi-faceted operations to run it. It further requires a data layer to improve availability, scale,…

Getting Started with the Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver

Jun 01, 2022 by melissa

In Kubernetes, you might encounter difficulties keeping application API keys, access tokens, and passwords safe. There are several approaches to solve this problem. In this DoKC session, DigitalOcean‘s developer advocate,…

DoK Day at KubeCon EU 2022 Summary

May 24, 2022 by melissa

What a blast we had a DoK Day @ KubeCon EU 2022. Running stateful workloads on Kubernetes is becoming an industry standard, but there are always challenges! Thank you to…

ETL/ELT on Kubernetes with Airbyte: K8s development insights

May 23, 2022 by melissa

There are a lot of different approaches working for a spot in an attempt to solve ETL/ELT on Kubernetes. Considering that the cloud-native landscape is built for deploying Dockerized, open-source…