2 posts tagged with "EKS"

In this article we focus on establishing connectivity between 2 Aerospike clusters. The goal is to use Aerospike's Cross Data Center Replication feature ( XDR ) to seamlessly send data from a source cluster to a destination cluster. The source cluster needs network visibility of all Aerospike service ports in the remote cluster, and this can present problems, particularly in a Kubernetes environment. Placing a proxy server in front of the private Kubernetes destination cluster can overcome this problem and achieve the desired goal. To demonstrate the solution we start by installing the Kubernetes Operator that will schedule our source and destination databases. In this example, we set up our replication in one direction. Aerospike is capable of supporting 'master/master' replication and provides a conflict resolution mechanism in the event of update clashes. This too could be supported using the XDR proxy.

This is the first in a series of blog posts intended to help folks who may be struggling with deployment of an Aerospike database. I'm part of the Aerospike Developer Relations team, but I spend most of my days playing around with websites or writing code samples, and not deploying databases in real-world contexts. I hope that you can follow along with me as I fumble my way through a production build and create a tool that will not only help me with my job, but also help me learn a whole lot more about Aerospike.

Let me make the mistakes so you don't have to! Or do make them, that's cool too.