Thanks for the +1, Mike. Yeah, I agree totally on adding better Kubernetes support. I have a dependent patch on this (https://asterix-gerrit.ics.uci.edu/c/asterixdb/+/18242) that adds example Helm charts as a first step toward this. Using a StatefulSet with either a PersistentVolume or one of the cloud/object store storage back-ends achieves basic functionality for static clusters. This patch comes out of some experimentation I was doing last year, and I was able to do stop/start just fine if I recall correctly. PersistentVolumes are really awesome, and solve a major headache that both YARN and Mesos had for hosting databases or anything that needed to manage data long-term, at least from my point of view.
I think the Right solution however is to add a Kubernetes Operator for AsterixDB, and this should be the next step. This would allow resizing the cluster and other things. All the support for this already exists for the runtime effectively, and Kubernetes provides a lot of the things in the past that had to be done on our side (e.g. NCService's config distribution, or Managix's use of Zookeeper). It's roughly analogous to what was necessary to put AsterixDB on YARN, but Kubernetes has a lot more features. On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM Mike Carey <dtab...@gmail.com> wrote: > > +1 for this addition! (It might be cool to also have a default > Kubernetes controller that runs things in the clustered case, if there > is some way to do that, so that users can have reliable clusters that > they can manage and turn on and off?) > > On 8/21/25 8:06 AM, Ian Maxon wrote: > > Hello fellow devs, > > > > I proposed an APE to add a containerized packaging to AsterixDB. I > > know we've had some one-off and demo ones (e.g. asterix-docker), but I > > think it's time to have an official one. I've had this change waiting > > in the wings for a while, and I figured it's time to try and push it > > over the finish line. > > > > I think this container should work for both evaluation and production > > deployment. It contains a default config, but the entrypoint script > > allows both a config file and any command line parameters to be given. > > > > Here's the current patchset: > > https://asterix-gerrit.ics.uci.edu/c/asterixdb/+/18183 > > and APE document: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ASTERIXDB/APE+27%3A+Containerized+packaging > > > > Looking forward to everyone's thoughts. > > > > -Ian
