Hey Chris - this looks pretty interesting! It looks like there's a lot of functionality in here.
* What aspects of Mission Control are dependent on using K8ssandra? * Can Mission Control work without K8ssandra? * Is mission control open source? * I'm not familiar with Vector - does it require an agent? * Is Reaper deployed separately or integrated in? Thanks! Looking forward to trying this out. Jon On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 7:07 AM Christopher Bradford <bradfor...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > >
