Category: Kubernetes

Withdrawal of the Couchbase Service Broker

Withdrawal of the Couchbase Service Broker

Couchbase will be formally withdrawing the Couchbase Service Broker, as a supported product, from 1st November 2023. What is a Service Broker? Service Brokers implement the Open Service Broker API, an open standard for interoperability between clients and service brokers...

August 1, 2023
Platform Self-Certification in Cloud-Native Operator 2.3.0

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...

Cloud-Native Certificates – De Facto Standards For Kubernetes

Cloud-Native Certificates – De Facto Standards For Kubernetes

Couchbase uses TLS to ensure communication across the network is secure, preventing malicious third parties from eavesdropping or tampering with requests, for instance client requests, intercluster requests (node-to-node encryption) and intracluster requests (cross data center replication – XDCR). The latest...

Introducing The CAO Utility For Cloud-Native Database Automation

Introducing The CAO Utility For Cloud-Native Database Automation

The Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.3.0 release provides some exciting improvements to lifecycle automation with the cao utility.  This utility improves previous configuration tools by consolidating provisioning and facilitating supportability with the addition of a self-certification feature. To get started, download...

May 13, 2022
Simplify Schema Migration On Cloud-Native Couchbase Deployments

Simplify Schema Migration On Cloud-Native Couchbase Deployments

The Couchbase Autonomous Operator is a Kubernetes operator that provides cloud-native integration with open source Kubernetes and Red Hat Openshift. It allows a user to use Kubernetes’ declarative functionality to define what the Couchbase Server Cluster will be and manage...

Cloud-Native Database Automation: Autonomous Operator 2.3.0 Now Available

Cloud-Native Database Automation: Autonomous Operator 2.3.0 Now Available

We’re pleased to announce the release of Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.3.0. The central theme of this release is ‘simplify and innovate’.  We are introducing significant architectural enhancements to simplify DevOps and development. New data organization features from Couchbase Server 7,...

Why Uplevel From MongoDB™

Why Uplevel From MongoDB™

Today’s applications need to deliver a great experience to users anywhere, all the time. For business-critical applications, there is no downtime, they must support customers 24/7, 365. Applications are being architected to run on micro-services and to be developed in...

February 22, 2022
Top Blogs of 2021 – Part 1

Top Blogs of 2021 – Part 1

What a whirlwind 2021 has been! We’ve had a lot of major events take place this year including debuting on Nasdaq, debuting in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, launching Couchbase Server 7.0, and of course, introducing Couchbase Capella. It’s been a...

December 27, 2021
Testing Couchbase Applications, Why Wait?

Testing Couchbase Applications, Why Wait?

In my previous blog, we discussed setting up a Couchbase cluster locally on your own hardware. The beauty of this was that it significantly reduces both the TCO of your testing infrastructure and the time needed to acquire new test...

December 20, 2021
Announcing Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.3 Beta

Announcing Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.3 Beta

Today, I’m delighted to announce the latest preview of the Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.3.0-Beta. This beta release is focused on adding some key features introduced in Couchbase Server 7.0 to Autonomous Operator such as scopes and collections, role-based access control...

Multi-Cloud vs. Hybrid Cloud: Differences, Benefits & Strategies

Multi-Cloud vs. Hybrid Cloud: Differences, Benefits & Strategies

Is your enterprise organization taking advantage of a multi-cloud or hybrid cloud strategy? According to Gartner Group, over 75% of mid-size and large organizations will have adopted a hybrid or multi-cloud strategy by 2021. What’s most critical for your enterprise...

11 Fluent Bit Examples, Tips & Tricks for Log Forwarding with Couchbase

11 Fluent Bit Examples, Tips & Tricks for Log Forwarding with Couchbase

Log forwarding and processing with Couchbase is easier than ever. We have support for log forwarding and audit log management for both Couchbase Autonomous Operator (i.e., Kubernetes) and for on-prem Couchbase Server deployments. In both cases, log processing is powered...