Tag: couchbase autonomous operator
Platform Self-Certification in Cloud-Native Operator 2.3.0
All Your Environments are Belong to Us! What Couchbase certifies Commodity Cloud platforms are used by the Couchbase Autonomous Operator team to test the everything works. These platforms are leveraged due to ubiquity within the Kubernetes ecosystem and their ability...
Introducing The CAO Utility For Cloud-Native Database Automation
The Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.3.0 release provides some exciting improvements to lifecycle automation with the cao utility. This utility improves previous configuration tools by consolidating provisioning and facilitating supportability with the addition of a self-certification feature. To get started, download...
Wavelength Zones for Edge Computing with Couchbase
For decades, “the last mile” has been one of the weakest parts of Internet infrastructure. Today, mobile operators are ready to change that by providing reliable and fast connectivity with LAN-like latency for mobile applications. The introduction of AWS Wavelength...
Testing Couchbase Applications, Why Wait?
In my previous blog, we discussed setting up a Couchbase cluster locally on your own hardware. The beauty of this was that it significantly reduces both the TCO of your testing infrastructure and the time needed to acquire new test...
What to Know About the Log4j Vulnerability CVE-2021-44228
A critical zero-day exploit, known as Log4Shell, affecting the Apache Log4j utility (CVE-2021-44228) was made public on December 9, 2021. As soon as Couchbase became aware of this issue, we investigated it immediately within our product and security teams, and...
Announcing Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.3 Beta
Today, I’m delighted to announce the latest preview of the Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.3.0-Beta. This beta release is focused on adding some key features introduced in Couchbase Server 7.0 to Autonomous Operator such as scopes and collections, role-based access control...
11 Fluent Bit Examples, Tips & Tricks for Log Forwarding with Couchbase
Log forwarding and processing with Couchbase is easier than ever. We have support for log forwarding and audit log management for both Couchbase Autonomous Operator (i.e., Kubernetes) and for on-prem Couchbase Server deployments. In both cases, log processing is powered...
Couchbase Autonomous Operator vs MongoDB Enterprise Kubernetes Operator
A Kubernetes Operator is a software extension to Kubernetes that supports built-in capabilities to manage your Kubernetes applications in an automated fashion and that follows Kubernetes principles – especially the Control Loop pattern. Why do we need a Kubernetes Operator?...
How to Build a Couchbase Autonomous Operator Proof of Concept
Whenever I hear about a customer’s first experience with the Couchbase Autonomous Operator (CAO) for Kubernetes, their first question tends to be “How much?” The answer is that it’s already included in their Enterprise Edition subscription. Joyous to hear this,...
Using Fluent Bit for Log Forwarding & Processing with Couchbase Server
With the recent release of Couchbase Autonomous Operator (CAO) 2.2, we have recently provided log processing and forwarding for the Kubernetes deployments using the OSS Fluent Bit tooling. This is also OSS and available on GitHub or as a container....
Google Autopilot and the Journey from Manual to Autonomous
It’s fair to say that Kubernetes has done wonders for containerization, becoming a crucial component of organizations’ digital transformation strategies. Kubernetes goes some way to easing the burden of managing various container clusters, while its ease-of-use minimizes the time taken...
Announcing Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.2
Today we are announcing the General Availability of Couchbase Autonomous Operator for Kubernetes (CAO) Version 2.2. This release provides an automated cloud-native database experience with exciting new features and improvements, such as: Auto-scaling Couchbase services Online storage scaling (scale up...