Meeting Notes

Introduce teams and individuals wanting to participate

Organizations with attendees:

  • Instaclustr
  • DataStax
  • Bloomberg
  • New Relic
  • Apple
  • Orange
  • Ippon Technologies

Discuss a framework for participation

  • Outline needs to be created in documentation. CEP to be created (Ben and Patrick will take on first draft)
  • Time zone considerations seem to be good. Two meetings will have to work for max coverage.
  • Suggestion is for on-going bi-weekly meetings

Outline some early goals and next steps

  • Find the common ground between all the operators
  • Think of terms of pluggable layers to keep implementations flexible. 
  • Gather feedback from users and potential contributors. 
  • New Relic - “Just starting and look at operator options to bring our databases in k8s”

Discussion: What makes an operator production ready?

  • Cross region to kubernetes clusters. Match C* capabilities
  • Has to be run by the ops team not the dev team
  • Daily tasks have to be easy
  • Backup and Restore
  • Maintenance tasks have to be easy
  • Working with stateful sets
  • Adding to dtest and part of testing
  • Everything needs to be configurable 
  • Network stack in k8s 
  • DNS in Cassandra has to get fixed - Possible solution(https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/28969)
  • Observability by default

Outstanding Questions

  • What about the “official” docker image? Currently not managed by the Apache Cassandra project. Seems like a mis-match.
  • Connection with sidecar project? 
  • What about the release process? Would it be tied to Cassandra releases?
  • Committer process: Who would be approving PRs. Operator code is all in Go which would require a different group of committers for this project. 
  • Taking people on more committees may be the right choice

  • Is a Kubernetes Operator a ASF project or should it live somewhere else? 

Zoom Video Recordings



Cassandra Kubernetes Operator Meeting 1(APAC/Western US Friendly)

Cassandra Kubernetes Operator Meeting 2(CEST/Eastern US Friendly)

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