CrateDB EdgeΒΆ
Crate.io is the hybrid cloud database solution integrating CrateDB clusters and the CrateDB Cloud software stack with on-premise or customer-controlled cloud infrastructure.
The CrateDB Edge concept is simple. You bring your own Kubernetes infrastructure - whether in a production site, office, laboratory, or local setup, or in your existing managed cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP. Wherever it may be, we provide the full experience of CrateDB Cloud to that Kubernetes environment. You keep your existing infrastructure setup and you get all the benefits of CrateDB Cloud on top: from quick deployment to seamless scaling and easy cluster management.
The process of getting CrateDB Edge running is far easier than it may seem, thanks to the support for Edge deployment built into the CrateDB Cloud Console, our own web UI. Even so, there are some steps involved, and some requirements have to be met in order for it to work. This tutorial therefore serves as an end-to-end walkthrough of the process and prerequisites.
In these tutorials, we first introduce the signup and configuration process for a local Kubernetes installation. Next, we explain the process end-to-end for using AKS and EKS services. After that, we outline the installation method for some lightweight Kubernetes distributions, like K3s and Microk8s.
Then, we explain how to set up a custom backup location, so you can keep full ownership of your data backups.
We also introduce a way to monitor your CrateDB Edge cluster in the visualization tool Grafana coupled with Loki and Prometheus.
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