+1 for this feature! Thanks and Regards, Suryaa Charan S
On Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 10:02 Ian Maxon <ima...@apache.org> wrote: > Thanks for the +1, Mike. Yeah, I agree totally on adding better > Kubernetes support. I have a dependent patch on this > (https://asterix-gerrit.ics.uci.edu/c/asterixdb/+/18242) that adds > example Helm charts as a first step toward this. Using a StatefulSet > with either a PersistentVolume or one of the cloud/object store > storage back-ends achieves basic functionality for static clusters. > This patch comes out of some experimentation I was doing last year, > and I was able to do stop/start just fine if I recall correctly. > PersistentVolumes are really awesome, and solve a major headache that > both YARN and Mesos had for hosting databases or anything that needed > to manage data long-term, at least from my point of view. > > I think the Right solution however is to add a Kubernetes Operator for > AsterixDB, and this should be the next step. This would allow resizing > the cluster and other things. All the support for this already exists > for the runtime effectively, and Kubernetes provides a lot of the > things in the past that had to be done on our side (e.g. NCService's > config distribution, or Managix's use of Zookeeper). It's roughly > analogous to what was necessary to put AsterixDB on YARN, but > Kubernetes has a lot more features. > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM Mike Carey <dtab...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > +1 for this addition! (It might be cool to also have a default > > Kubernetes controller that runs things in the clustered case, if there > > is some way to do that, so that users can have reliable clusters that > > they can manage and turn on and off?) > > > > On 8/21/25 8:06 AM, Ian Maxon wrote: > > > Hello fellow devs, > > > > > > I proposed an APE to add a containerized packaging to AsterixDB. I > > > know we've had some one-off and demo ones (e.g. asterix-docker), but I > > > think it's time to have an official one. I've had this change waiting > > > in the wings for a while, and I figured it's time to try and push it > > > over the finish line. > > > > > > I think this container should work for both evaluation and production > > > deployment. It contains a default config, but the entrypoint script > > > allows both a config file and any command line parameters to be given. > > > > > > Here's the current patchset: > > > https://asterix-gerrit.ics.uci.edu/c/asterixdb/+/18183 > > > and APE document: > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ASTERIXDB/APE+27%3A+Containerized+packaging > > > > > > Looking forward to everyone's thoughts. > > > > > > -Ian >
