Category: Kubernetes
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...
Public Network, External DNS & Couchbase Autonomous Operator
Why expose the Couchbase database on the public network? Below are some examples: Cross-Data Center Replication (XDCR) for High Availability and Disaster Recovery Client SDK access to Couchbase cluster Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platforms *Note – All of these use cases share...
Balaji Narayanan, Solutions Architect, Couchbase May 5, 2020
Monitoring a NoSQL Database with Couchbase and Prometheus
Couchbase Server currently has a plethora of stats from data access throughput in KV and query to system resources like disk IO and CPU to newer services like eventing. There have been a number of community authored Prometheus Exporters written...
Daniel Ma, Software Engineer, Couchbase April 30, 2020
Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0 For Kubernetes Is Now GA!
We’re proud to announce the general availability of Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0. We have achieved significant milestones since we first announced production certification of Couchbase Server on Docker containers in June of 2016, and with Autonomous Operator 2.0, we are...
Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0 with Prometheus – Part 2
Prerequisites As mentioned in Part 1 of the blog, we need to run Prometheus and Grafana in the Kubernetes environment on our Amazon EKS. The recommended way is to use Kube-Prometheus, an Open Source project. Not only will this simplify...
Prasad Doddi April 21, 2020
Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0 with Prometheus – Part 1
We recently announced the latest preview of the Couchbase Autonomous Operator (CAO) 2.0 beta. This release is a significant update to the Couchbase Autonomous Operator. Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0 introduces several new enterprise-grade features with fully autonomous capabilities – security,...
Prasad Doddi April 21, 2020
Why Couchbase Is the Best NoSQL Option for Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat’s leadership in the container orchestration space with OpenShift mirrors Couchbase’s leadership in the containerized database space with its Autonomous Operator. This fact is the foundation of the partnership between Red Hat and Couchbase. I’ve personally worked on the...
Evan Pease April 13, 2020
Inter-Kubernetes Networking via VPC Peering
1. Introduction It is often desirable by enterprise customers to have standby database cluster/s for data locality and high performance, disaster recovery and/or for mere data backups. Couchbase Cross Data Center Replication (XDCR) requires no introduction as customers have been...
Anuj Sahni, Senior Solutions Architect, Couchbase March 18, 2020
Announcing Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0 Beta
Introducing Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0 Beta Today, we are delighted to announce the latest preview of the Couchbase Autonomous Operator (CAO) 2.0 beta. This release is a significant update to the Couchbase Autonomous Operator. This release introduces several new enterprise-grade...
Couchbase Backup / Restore in K8s Environment
1. Introduction Periodic backup of data is an important part of any production database deployment, which helps ensure data recovery in the event of a disaster and it also minimizes data inconsistency when a restore is required. Couchbase provides cbbackupmgr...
Anuj Sahni, Senior Solutions Architect, Couchbase January 31, 2020
ASP.NET Core Kubernetes Tutorial for AKS
ASP.NET Core Kubernetes tutorial will be covered in this blog post, as a follow-up to ASP.NET Core Microservices: Getting Started. I just saw this and it made me laugh WAY HARDER than it probably should have. pic.twitter.com/R1wleGZM0B — Carmen Crincoli,...
Matthew Groves January 24, 2020
Announcing Couchbase Server 6.5 GA – What’s New and Improved
We are pleased to announce the release of Couchbase Server 6.5 GA with stellar features that lead the innovation in the NoSQL database market. We are excited to once again pioneer some of the most sought-after relational capabilities in the...