The k8ssandra requirement is a major blocker.
Sean R. Durity INTERNAL USE From: Christopher Bradford <bradfor...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2024 9:49 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Cc: Christopher Bradford <christopher.bradf...@datastax.com> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Check out new features in K8ssandra and Mission Control Hey Jon, * What aspects of Mission Control are dependent on using K8ssandra? Mission Control bundles in K8ssandra for the core automation workflows (lifecycle management, cluster operations, medusa &. reaper). In fact we include the K8ssandraSpec Hey Jon, * What aspects of Mission Control are dependent on using K8ssandra? Mission Control bundles in K8ssandra for the core automation workflows (lifecycle management, cluster operations, medusa &. reaper). In fact we include the K8ssandraSpec in the top-level MissionControlCluster resource verbatim. * Can Mission Control work without K8ssandra? Not at this time, K8ssandra powers a significant portion of the C* side of the stack. Mission Control provides additional functionality (web interface, certificate coordination, observability stack, etc) and applies some conventions to how K8ssandra objects are created / templated out, but the actually K8ssandra operator present in MC is the same one available via the Helm charts. * Is mission control open source? Not at this time. While the majority of the Kubernetes operators are open source as part of K8ssandra, there are some pieces which are closed source. I expect some of the components may move from closed source into K8ssandra over time. * I'm not familiar with Vector - does it require an agent? Vector [vector.dev]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/vector.dev/__;!!M-nmYVHPHQ!L0M2-GDjSTuPzpD3TvfxiLgm2I5pLnFGmW5BhdhaYQBI6RlxK6e6ZMM2khnp8YUhfnqy2wYzjPX-UYAG9q8HOgVBPg$> is a pretty neat project. We run a few of their components as part of the stack. There is a DaemonSet which runs on each worker to collect host level metrics and scrape logs being emitted by containers, a sidecar for collecting logs from the C* container, and an aggregator which performs some filtering and transformation before pushing to an object store. * Is Reaper deployed separately or integrated in? Reaper is deployed as part of the cluster creation workflow. It is spun up and configured to connect to the cluster automatically. ~Chris Christopher Bradford On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 6:55 PM Jon Haddad <j...@jonhaddad.com<mailto:j...@jonhaddad.com>> wrote: Hey Chris - this looks pretty interesting! It looks like there's a lot of functionality in here. * What aspects of Mission Control are dependent on using K8ssandra? * Can Mission Control work without K8ssandra? * Is mission control open source? * I'm not familiar with Vector - does it require an agent? * Is Reaper deployed separately or integrated in? Thanks! Looking forward to trying this out. Jon On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 7:07 AM Christopher Bradford <bradfor...@gmail.com<mailto:bradfor...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hey C* folks, I'm excited to share that the DataStax team has just released Mission Control [datastax.com]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/datastax.com/products/mission-control__;!!M-nmYVHPHQ!L0M2-GDjSTuPzpD3TvfxiLgm2I5pLnFGmW5BhdhaYQBI6RlxK6e6ZMM2khnp8YUhfnqy2wYzjPX-UYAG9q-QlbHB9g$>, a new operations platform for running Apache Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise. Built around the open source core of K8ssandra [k8ssandra.io]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/k8ssandra.io/__;!!M-nmYVHPHQ!L0M2-GDjSTuPzpD3TvfxiLgm2I5pLnFGmW5BhdhaYQBI6RlxK6e6ZMM2khnp8YUhfnqy2wYzjPX-UYAG9q9NjbtYtg$> we've been hard at work expanding multi-region capabilities. If you haven't seen some of the new features coming in here are some highlights: * Management API support in Reaper - no more JMX credentials, YAY * Additional support for TLS across the stack- including operator to node, Reaper to management API, etc * Updated metrics pipeline - removal of collectd from nodes, Vector for monitoring log files (goodbye tail -f) * Deterministic node selection for cluster operations * Top-level management tasks in the control plane (no more forced connections to data planes to trigger a restart) On top of this Mission Control offers: * A single web-interface to monitor and manage your clusters wherever they're deployed * Automatic management of internode and operator to node certificates - this includes integration with third party CAs and rotation of all certificates, keys, and various Java stores * Centralized metrics and logs aggregation, querying and storage with the capability to split the pipeline allowing for exporting of streams to other observability tools within your environment * Per-node configuration (this is an edge case, but still something we wanted to make possible) While building our Mission Control, K8ssandra has seen a number of releases with quite a few contributions from the community. From Helm chart updates to operator tweaks we want to send out a huge THANK YOU to everyone who has filed issues, opened pull requests, and helped us test bugfixes and new functionality. If you've been sleeping on K8ssandra, now is a good time to check it out [k8ssandra.io]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/k8ssandra.io/get-started/__;!!M-nmYVHPHQ!L0M2-GDjSTuPzpD3TvfxiLgm2I5pLnFGmW5BhdhaYQBI6RlxK6e6ZMM2khnp8YUhfnqy2wYzjPX-UYAG9q-LfVZpnw$>. 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 [datastax.com]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/datastax.com/products/mission-control/download__;!!M-nmYVHPHQ!L0M2-GDjSTuPzpD3TvfxiLgm2I5pLnFGmW5BhdhaYQBI6RlxK6e6ZMM2khnp8YUhfnqy2wYzjPX-UYAG9q9o6fiyfg$>. I'm happy to answer any K8ssandra or Mission Control questions you may have here or on our Discord [discord.gg]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/discord.gg/qP5tAt6Uwt__;!!M-nmYVHPHQ!L0M2-GDjSTuPzpD3TvfxiLgm2I5pLnFGmW5BhdhaYQBI6RlxK6e6ZMM2khnp8YUhfnqy2wYzjPX-UYAG9q-KxcYDhA$>. Cheers, ~Chris Christopher Bradford ________________________________ The information in this Internet Email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this Email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to our clients any opinions or advice contained in this Email are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in any applicable governing The Home Depot terms of business or client engagement letter. 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