Re: Advantage over Cassandra in Kubernetes

[Goutham reddy]

Thanks Ben for the detailed insight. Btw we are planning to set up
Kubernetes Cassandra cluster in Development. We wanted to know what are the
possible problems we face if we go by Kubernetes

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 4:06 PM Ben Bromhead  wrote:

> This is a fairly high-level question which could end up going quite deep,
> but below is a quick summary off the top of my head.
>
> You can get a few advantages when running Cassandra in Kubernetes,
> particularly:
>
>- Easy discovery and network connectivity with other services running
>on K8s
>- Reproducible, repeatable operations and deployments
>- A cloud-independent approach to container orchestration, that is
>supported by all major cloud providers.
>- Easy backups, deployments, scaling etc via statefulsets or an
>operator (see https://github.com/instaclustr/cassandra-operator).
>
> There are also some rough edges with running Cassandra on Kubernetes:
>
>- Failure domain placement with statefulsets is still challenging
>(v1.12 goes a long way to fixing this -
>
> https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/10/11/topology-aware-volume-provisioning-in-kubernetes/
>)
>- Getting resource constraints correct and working out scheduling in
>constrained environments can be maddening.
>- Only a few, small deployments (that I'm aware of) are running
>Cassandra in Kubernetes in production. So you will be breaking new ground
>and encounter problems that haven't been solved before.
>- The Cassandra examples in the official Kubernetes documentation is
>not something you want to take into production.
>
> Cheers
>
> Ben
>
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 6:50 PM Goutham reddy 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> We are in the process of setting up Cassandra cluster with high
>> availability. So the debate is installing Cassandra in Kubernetes cluster.
>> Can someone  throw some light, what advantages can I get when created
>> Cassandra cluster inside Kubernetes cluster. Any comments are highly
>> appreciated:)
>>
>> Thanks and Regards,
>> Goutham Reddy Aenugu.
>> --
>> Regards
>> Goutham Reddy
>>
> --
> Ben Bromhead
> CTO | Instaclustr 
> +1 650 284 9692
> Reliability at Scale
> Cassandra, Spark, Elasticsearch on AWS, Azure, GCP and Softlayer
>
-- 
Regards
Goutham Reddy

Re: Advantage over Cassandra in Kubernetes

[Ben Bromhead]

This is a fairly high-level question which could end up going quite deep,
but below is a quick summary off the top of my head.

You can get a few advantages when running Cassandra in Kubernetes,
particularly:

   - Easy discovery and network connectivity with other services running on
   K8s
   - Reproducible, repeatable operations and deployments
   - A cloud-independent approach to container orchestration, that is
   supported by all major cloud providers.
   - Easy backups, deployments, scaling etc via statefulsets or an operator
   (see https://github.com/instaclustr/cassandra-operator).

There are also some rough edges with running Cassandra on Kubernetes:

   - Failure domain placement with statefulsets is still challenging (v1.12
   goes a long way to fixing this -
   
https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/10/11/topology-aware-volume-provisioning-in-kubernetes/
   )
   - Getting resource constraints correct and working out scheduling in
   constrained environments can be maddening.
   - Only a few, small deployments (that I'm aware of) are running
   Cassandra in Kubernetes in production. So you will be breaking new ground
   and encounter problems that haven't been solved before.
   - The Cassandra examples in the official Kubernetes documentation is not
   something you want to take into production.

Cheers

Ben

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 6:50 PM Goutham reddy 
wrote:

> Hi,
> We are in the process of setting up Cassandra cluster with high
> availability. So the debate is installing Cassandra in Kubernetes cluster.
> Can someone  throw some light, what advantages can I get when created
> Cassandra cluster inside Kubernetes cluster. Any comments are highly
> appreciated:)
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Goutham Reddy Aenugu.
> --
> Regards
> Goutham Reddy
>
-- 
Ben Bromhead
CTO | Instaclustr 
+1 650 284 9692
Reliability at Scale
Cassandra, Spark, Elasticsearch on AWS, Azure, GCP and Softlayer