Couchbase automates management with 2.0 release of Operator for Kubernetes>
Tech Republic – Matthew Heusser
On April 28, Couchbase announced the 2.0 release of its Operator for Kubernetes, previously in beta. Operator Patterns, in Kubernetes, are named for the human role they replace, or at least augment, with the potential to do everything from automate installs to automate backups, even scaling on demand. I asked Anil Kumar, director of product management for Couchbase, to explain what that means for customers, and how it was different from the company’s new public cloud offering.

An intelligent human operator might check the resource needs of all of the components, and compare that to the space in the cluster, before performing a deploy. That is exactly the kind of intelligence that is not required in a level one “basic install operator” that the team at Couchbase put into their new release, which achieves level four. The new operator is also easy to configure to export metrics into Prometheus, which is emerging as a standard monitoring tool. With operators, Couchbase takes on the responsibility and provides the support when things go wrong. While a level three operator provides the “full lifecycle” of install, upgrade, and back, level four provides insights into operations to help fine-tuning. When a node goes down, the operator does not “fire an alert,” but instead kills the offending node, finds where the data was replicated or backed up and restores it, all without interrupting operations. While Couchbase the database is open-source, the operator is only bundled as part of the Enterprise Edition. Brent Burnett, a systems architect at CenterEdge, estimates the operator has reduced IT administration overhead by 80%.
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