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Simon has almost 20 years experience on diverse topics such as systems programming, application performance and scale out storage. The cloud is now his current focus, specializing in enterprise network architecture, information security and platform orchestration across a wide range of technologies.

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Platform Self-Certification in Cloud-Native Operator 2.3.0
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Platform Self-Certification in Cloud-Native Operator 2.3.0

All Your Environments are Belong to Us! What Couchbase certifies Commodity Cloud platforms are used by the Couchbase Autonomous Operator team to test the everything works. These platforms are leveraged due to ubiquity within the Kubernetes ecosystem and their ability...

May 25, 2022
Unicorn Unleashed: Leveling-Up With the Autonomous Operator
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Unicorn Unleashed: Leveling-Up With the Autonomous Operator

No, I haven’t lost my mind.  Unicorn is the internal code-name for Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0.0.  For a release this large in scope we wanted something mythical and fantastical to sum up the sheer effort and passion that was put...

May 6, 2020
Autonomous Operator 1.2.0 Public Connectivity
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Autonomous Operator 1.2.0 Public Connectivity

In my previous article I discussed—from a high level—the new Public Connectivity feature in Autonomous Operator 1.2.0.  This was intentionally an abstract overview in order to coax the user to learn about the joys of DDNS, TLS and layer 3...

August 6, 2019
Bridging Gaps: Autonomous Operator 1.2 Network Enhancements
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Bridging Gaps: Autonomous Operator 1.2 Network Enhancements

Autonomous Operator versions prior to 1.2.0 had limited ability to interact with clients.  The Couchbase data platform could only be used by SDKs located in the same Kubernetes cluster.  Cross datacenter replication (XDCR) could only be used within the same...

May 7, 2019
Deep Dive: Couchbase Autonomous Operator 1.2.0
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Deep Dive: Couchbase Autonomous Operator 1.2.0

The Couchbase Autonomous Operator 1.0.0 was released just 8 months ago.  This was swiftly followed by 1.1.0. During this period we have had tremendous feedback from our community of users.  First and foremost a thank you to all who have...

May 7, 2019
Navigating Kubernetes Vulnerabilities with the Autonomous Operator
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Navigating Kubernetes Vulnerabilities with the Autonomous Operator

The first critical vulnerability in the Kubernetes container orchestration platform was disclosed earlier this month.  This vulnerability affects all versions of Kubernetes greater than 1.0.0. It also affects RedHat OpenShift platform versions greater than 3.0.0. In this post we look...

December 15, 2018
Double Click on Couchbase Autonomous Operator 1.1.0
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Double Click on Couchbase Autonomous Operator 1.1.0

Couchbase Autonomous Operator version 1.1.0 was released on November 15th 2018. For the Kubernetes team it is a small release but an important one to improve the end user experience. In this post we will double click into the specifics...

November 19, 2018