Operations Archives

Infrastructure as Code, Part Three: Configuration With Salt

2019-01-22

In part three of this IaC miniseries, I will introduce you to Salt and show you can use it to decompose your infrastructure setup and configuration into reusable components.

Operations

Monitoring CrateDB on Kubernetes with Prometheus and Grafana

2018-12-13

Learn how to set up Prometheus and Grafana with CrateDB so as to monitor CPU, memory, and disk usage, as well as CrateDB metrics like queries per second.

General Operations

Infrastructure as Code, Part Two: A Closer Look at Terraform

2018-10-30

In part two of this IaC miniseries, I will tell you more about Terraform and provide examples from our own setup at Crate.io.

Operations

Infrastructure as Code, Part One

2018-10-04

Infrastructure as Code uses code to provision, configure, and manage infrastructure. In part one of this IaC miniseries, I will introduce you to the basic concepts and explain some of the benefits.

Operations

Run Your First CrateDB Cluster on Kubernetes, Part Two

2018-08-22

Part two of a miniseries that walks you through the process of setting up your first CrateDB cluster on Kubernetes.

Operations

Run Your First CrateDB Cluster on Kubernetes, Part One

2018-08-17

Part one of a miniseries that walks you through the process of setting up your first CrateDB cluster on Kubernetes.

Operations

What to Look at When You’re Monitoring a Distributed Java Application

2018-02-19

In this post we will show you what to look at when you're monitoring a distributed java application.

Analyzing Docker Container Performance: JSON stream

Operations

Analyzing Docker Container Performance With Native Tools

2017-10-16

In this blog post, we will set up a small CrateDB cluster with Docker and go through some useful Docker commands that let us take a look at performance.

Operations

How We Use StackRox to Secure CrateDB Clusters on Docker

2017-10-10

How we deployed StackRox to harden database security on our public-facing, Docker-based CrateDB cluster.

Operations

Updated Best Practices

2017-05-30

We added some new best practice guides to our docs, as well as updating some of the existing ones. In this post, we briefly cover what’s new or improved.