Hey C* folks, I'm excited to share that the DataStax team has just released Mission Control <https://datastax.com/products/mission-control>, a new operations platform for running Apache Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise. Built around the open source core of K8ssandra <https://k8ssandra.io/> we've been hard at work expanding multi-region capabilities. If you haven't seen some of the new features coming in here are some highlights:
- Management API support in Reaper - no more JMX credentials, YAY - Additional support for TLS across the stack- including operator to node, Reaper to management API, etc - Updated metrics pipeline - removal of collectd from nodes, Vector for monitoring log files (goodbye tail -f) - Deterministic node selection for cluster operations - Top-level management tasks in the control plane (no more forced connections to data planes to trigger a restart) On top of this Mission Control offers: - A single web-interface to monitor and manage your clusters wherever they're deployed - Automatic management of internode and operator to node certificates - this includes integration with third party CAs and rotation of all certificates, keys, and various Java stores - Centralized metrics and logs aggregation, querying and storage with the capability to split the pipeline allowing for exporting of streams to other observability tools within your environment - Per-node configuration (this is an edge case, but still something we wanted to make possible) While building our Mission Control, K8ssandra has seen a number of releases with quite a few contributions from the community. From Helm chart updates to operator tweaks we want to send out a huge THANK YOU to everyone who has filed issues, opened pull requests, and helped us test bugfixes and new functionality. If you've been sleeping on K8ssandra, now is a good time to check it out <https://k8ssandra.io/get-started/>. It has all of the pieces needed to run Cassandra in production. Looking for something out of the box instead of putting the pieces together yourself, take Mission Control for a spin and sign up for the trial <https://datastax.com/products/mission-control/download>. I'm happy to answer any K8ssandra or Mission Control questions you may have here or on our Discord <https://discord.gg/qP5tAt6Uwt>. Cheers, ~Chris Christopher Bradford
