What are next steps here?

Maybe we collectively put a table together w/the 2 operators and a list of
features to compare and contrast? Enumerate the frameworks / dependencies
they have to help form a point of view about the strengths and weaknesses
of each option?


On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 10:22 PM, Christopher Bradford <bradfor...@gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hello Dev list,
>
> I'm Chris Bradford a Product Manager at DataStax working with the
> cass-operator team. For background, we started down the path of developing
> an operator internally to power our C*aaS platform, Astra. Care was taken
> from day 1 to keep anything specific to this product at a layer above
> cass-operator so it could solely focus on the task of operating Cassandra
> clusters. With that being said, every single cluster on Astra is
> provisioned and operated by cass-operator. The value of an advanced
> operator to Cassandra users is tremendous so we decided to open source the
> project (and associated components) with the goal of building a community.
> It absolutely makes sense to offer this project and codebase up for
> donation as a standard / baseline for running C* on Kubernetes.
>
> Below you will find a collection of cass-operator features,
> differentiators, and roadmap / inflight initiatives. Table-stakes
> Must-have functionality for a C* operator
>
> -
>
> Datacenter provisioning
> -
>
> Schedule all pods
> -
>
> Bootstrap nodes in the appropriate order
> -
>
> Seeds
> -
>
> Across racks
> -
>
> etc.
> -
>
> Uniform configuration
> -
>
> Scale-up
> -
>
> Add new nodes in a balanced manner across rack
> -
>
> Scale-down
> -
>
> Remove nodes one at a time across racks
> -
>
> Node recovery
> -
>
> Restart process
> -
>
> Reschedule instance (IE replace node)
> - Replace instance
> -
>
> Specific workflows for seed node replacements
> -
>
> Multi-DC / Multi-Rack
> -
>
> Multi-Region / Multi-K8s Cluster
> -
>
> Note this requires support at a networking layer for pod to pod IP
> connectivity. This may be accomplished within the cluster with CNIs like
> Cilium or externally via traditional networking tools.
>
> Differentiators
>
> -
>
> OSS Ecosystem / Components
> -
>
> Cass Config Builder - OSS project extracted from DataStax OpsCenter Life
> Cycle Manager to provide automated configuration file rendering
> -
>
> Cass Config Definitions - definitions files for cass-config-builder,
> defines all configuration files, their parameters, and templates
> -
>
> Management API for Apache Cassandra (MAAC)
> -
>
> Metrics Collector for Apache Cassandra (MCAC)
> -
>
> Reference Prometheus Operator CRDs
> -
>
> ServiceMonitor
> -
>
> Instance
> -
>
> Reference Grafana Operator CRDs
> -
>
> Instance
> -
>
> Dashboards
> -
>
> Datasource
> -
>
> PodTemplateSpec
> -
>
> Customization of existing pods including support for adding containers,
> volumes, etc
> -
>
> Advanced Networking
> -
>
> Node Port
> -
>
> Host Network
> -
>
> Simple security
> -
>
> Management API mTLS support
> -
>
> Automated generation of keystore and truststore for internode and client
> to node TLS
> -
>
> Automated superuser account configuration
> -
>
> The default superuser (cassandra/cassandra) is disabled and never
> available to clients
> -
>
> Cluster administration account may be automatically (or provided) with
> values stored in a k8s secret
> -
>
> Automatic application of NetworkTopologyStrategy with appropriate RF for
> system keyspaces
> -
>
> Validating webhook
> -
>
> Invalid changes are rejected with a helpful message
> -
>
> Rolling cluster updates
> -
>
> Change in binary (C* upgrade)
> -
>
> Change in configuration
> -
>
> Canary deployments - single rack application of changes for validation
> before broader deployment
> -
>
> Rolling restart
> -
>
> Platform Integration / Testing / Certification
> -
>
> Red Hat Openshift compatible and certified
> -
>
> Secure, Universal Base Image (UBI) foundation images with security
> scanning performed by Red Hat
> -
>
> cass-operator
> -
>
> cass-config-builder
> -
>
> apache-cassandra w/ MCAC and MAAC
> -
>
> Integration with Red Hat certification pipeline / marketplace
> -
>
> Presence in Red Hat Operator Hub built into OpenShift interface
> -
>
> VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition compatible and certified
> -
>
> Security scanning for images performed by VMware
> -
>
> Amazon EKS
> -
>
> Google GKE
> -
>
> Azure AKS
> -
>
> Documentation / Reference Implementations
> -
>
> Cloud storage classes
> -
>
> Ingress solutions
> -
>
> Sample connection validation application with reference implementations of
> Java Driver client connection parameters
> -
>
> Cluster-level Stop / Resume - stop all running instances while keeping
> persistent storage. Allows for scaling compute down to zero. Bringing the
> cluster back up follows expected startup procedures
>
> Road Map / Inflight
>
> 1.
>
> Repair
> 1.
>
> Reaper integration
> 2.
>
> Backups
> 1.
>
> Velero integration
> 2. Medusa integration
> 3.
>
> Advanced Networking via sidecar
> 1.
>
> Combination of proxy sidecars (a la Envoy) to allow for persistent IP
> addresses despite Kubernetes' best efforts to shuffle them.
> 4.
>
> Single pod canary deployments
> 5.
>
> Platform Certification
> 1. VMware Project Pacific
>
> 2.
>
> Rancher Kubernetes Engine (K3s)
> 6.
>
> Documentation
> 1.
>
> Multi-region
> 2.
>
> Multi-cloud
> 3.
>
> Additional ingress providers
> 1. Voyager
> 2. HAProxy
> 3. Gloo
> 4. Ambassdor
> 5. Envoy
> 6. NGINX Ingress Controller
> 4.
>
> Additional storage class references
> 1.
>
> OpenEBS
> 7.
>
> Cassandra Enhancements
> 1.
>
> [#CASSANDRA-15823] Support for networking via identity instead of IP
> - ASF JIRA <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-15823>
>
> If there are further questions about the project, codebase, architecture,
> etc. the team would be happy to dive in to the details and discuss more.
>
> Cheers,
> ~Chris
>
> Christopher Bradford
>
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 12:19 PM Patrick McFadin <pmcfa...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I can agree with that Ben. Franck did a good job of outlining CassKop.
> Somebody from the cass-operator will be posting something similar and we
> can keep it on the mailing list.
>
> Patrick
>
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 2:16 PM Ben Bromhead <b...@instaclustr.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Frank and Stefan.
>
> @Patrick great suggestion and worthwhile getting everything on the table.
>
> One minor change I would advocate for. The SIG has been great to iterate
> and interact on the details, but I really think this conversation given
>
> the
>
> nature of the content needs to be on the mailing list. The mailing list
>
> is
>
> really our system of record and the most accessible.
>
> It gives folk time to think and digest, it's asynchronous, easily
> searchable and let's be honest, the majority of stakeholders in this are
> not US based, so the timing issue then goes away and makes it easier for
> people to participate in. I feel like we've made a lot more progress by
> simply having this discussion here.
>
> So instead of a presentation, maybe just an email to the ML addressing
>
> the
>
> headings that Patrick identified?
>
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 7:55 AM Stefan Miklosovic < stefan.miklosovic@
> instaclustr.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Patrick's suggestion seems good to me.
>
> I won't go into specifics here as I need to genuinely prepare for this. It
> is quite hard to dig deep into the solutions of others and bring some
> constructive criticism because it takes a lot of time to study it and
> everybody has some "why's" behind it.
>
> To summarize my goals and concerns:
>
> 1) We should be as much "Kubernetes operator idiomatic" as possible.
> Industry standards, no custom brain-child of this or that group because
> they think it is just cool or they just didn't know any better. I do NOT
> say it is like that right now, I just want to be ruthless here as much as
> possible when it comes to functionality and why it is done like that. It is
> awesome that we have already something latest (thanks to John) and it
> adheres to the latest releases. I personally had a hard time to keep up
> with all the releases, once I finished something and I aligned it, after a
> week or two there was already another one where things were different, it
> is a very fast-moving space and I hope that by time we develop something it
> will not be obsolete.
>
> 2) It may be easier said than done but it is guaranteed that people get
> emotional, it's their precious etc, so please let's go into this with good
> intentions, not trying to push one solution over the other just because
> they would like to see it there ... I will have an equally hard time to
> comply with this point. My plan is to explain what is _wrong_ with our
> solution. Where we made mistakes and what should be done differently but it
> is "too late" etc. It is quite hard to describe your work and all effort in
> this light but without telling what is wrong we can not decide what is good
> imho.
>
> 3) We should put something together fast enough so we can call it a
> release. We can always iterate on it for eternity. But the foundations need
> to be there. Here I want to say that I especially like what John did. I
> looked through these specs and it was obvious it has been written with care
> and attention. It looked _solid_. I am not sure how hard it is to put all
> other things on top of that, I truly do not, and here I think we would have
> to reinvent that wheel if we want to proceed because I can not imagine what
> it would be to retrofit e.g. CassKop on top of John specs, it is just like
> putting round pegs into the square holes, maybe some chunks would be reused
> easily but otherwise I worry we will be just on square one.
>
> One specific feeling I have as I read this is that even if there is the
> will to create the fourth operator, the respective parties will not be able
> to drop their own repository. The whole point behind this effort, to me, is
> to have a solid, community driven, stable, modern and feature complete
> operator people are truly using. I can see that once this is real, we will
> _really_ sunset our operator, redirecting people to the new operator on
> main readme doc etc, we truly mean it. Sure, if somebody comes and bug fix
> will be needed, we will fix it, but the whole point of doing this is to
> stop using what we have currently, over time, otherwise we are just
> splitting this space even more. If CassKop is not sure if they will use it
> because they do not know if that operator will be "enough" for them, aren't
> we just doing it wrong? If I exaggerate, they should be fine with deleting
> the whole repository and using just this Cassandra one we are going to make
> otherwise I don't see the point to work on this ...
>
> On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 at 20:45, Joshua McKenzie <jmcken...@apache.org>
> wrote:
>
> - choose cass-operator: it is not on offer right now so let’s see if
>
> it
>
> does
>
> We should all talk a lot more, but this is 100% a mistake - I take
>
> the
>
> blame for that. The intention has long been to offer cass-operator
>
> for
>
> donation but it slipped through the cracks and your email yesterday
>
> made
>
> me
>
> double-take.
>
> We have since resolved this misalignment. DataStax would be happy to
>
> donate
>
> any and all of cass-operator to the ASF and C* project if it's what
>
> we
>
> all
>
> agree best serves our collective Cassandra users. I'm also cognizant
>
> that
>
> an immense amount of effort has gone into CassKop and we seem to have
> something of an embarrassment of riches.
>
> I'm given to understand (haven't dug in personally) that the two
>
> operators
>
> express pretty different opinions when it comes to frameworks,
>
> designs,
>
> supported versions, etc. I think a discrete enumeration of the
>
> feature
>
> set
>
> and "identities" of both could really help navigate this conversation
>
> going
>
> forward.
>
> Also - thanks for that context Franck. It's always helpful to know
>
> where
>
> other people are coming from when we're all working together towards
>
> a
>
> common goal.
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 12:23 PM, <franck.de...@orange.com> wrote:
>
> I can share Orange’s view of the situation, sorry it is a long
>
> story!
>
> We started CassKop at the end of 2018 after betting on K8S which
>
> was
>
> not
>
> so simple as far as C* was concerned. Lack of support for local
>
> storage,
>
> IPs that change all the time, different network plugins to try to
>
> implement
>
> a non standard K8s way of having nodes see each other from
>
> different
>
> dcs…
>
> We hesitated with Mesos but could not have both and K8S was already
> tracting so much you could not not choose it.
>
> Anyway, we looked around and did not see anyone with such
>
> requirements
>
> so
>
> we said: why not try it ourselves but on github so that we may give
>
> it
>
> back
>
> to the community. We have used C* for quite a few years with great
>
> success
>
> on production with massive load and perfect availability. We love
>
> C*
>
> @
>
> Orange :) Thanks!
>
> So we started writing support for mono-dc cluster (CassKop) and
>
> added
>
> the
>
> multi dc support with MultiCassKop which is another operator
>
> included
>
> in
>
> the CassKop repo. For more details we tried to document our designs
>
> as
>
> much
>
> as possible here:
>
> https://orange-opensource.github.io/casskop/docs/
>
> 1_concepts/3_design_principes#multi-site-management
>
> In the middle of last year we had some talks with Datastax about
>
> working
>
> together around their new management sidecar. Their position on
>
> open
>
> source
>
> was not clear at that time so we said please come back when you
>
> have
>
> decided to go open source with it. Which they did in the beginning
>
> of
>
> this
>
> year. But at that time I guess work had started on cass-operator so
>
> we
>
> kept
>
> our separate ways.
>
> Since the beginning of the years, we have been working with our OPS
>
> team
>
> to have it in production. It is not simple as the team has to learn
>
> K8S and
>
> trust a newborn operator. This takes time especially as our
>
> internal
>
> cluster has been tweaked for multi-tenancy with obscure options
>
> being
>
> set
>
> by our K8s team…
>
> We also developed with Instaclustr the Backup & Restore
>
> functionnality
>
> (we
>
> have new CRDs (Custom Resource Definition) for backup and restore
>
> and a
>
> reconcile loop that calls out Instaclustr sidecar for these
>
> operations). We
>
> now support multiple backups in parallel and can write to s3/
>
> google
>
> or
>
> azur (but Stefan could give more details here if needed)
>
> During the SIG calls we mentioned our desire to donate CassKop once
>
> it
>
> satisfies our basics requirements (v1 coming just now but I said it
>
> too
>
> many times already) I am actually not sure Datastax mentioned their
>
> desire
>
> to donate cass-operator but we decided to compare the designs and
>
> the
>
> functionalities based on respective CRDs. The CRD is the interface
>
> with the
>
> user as it is where you describe the cluster that you want to have.
>
> These
>
> talks were very interesting and we found out that the CassKop team
>
> had
>
> made
>
> good choices most of the time but was may be too open. Indeed our
>
> intention
>
> was to give all the possibilities for our OPS team to work. This
>
> includes :
>
> - very open topology definition using any configuration of labels
>
> to
>
> map
>
> dcs / racks and nodes to labels on clusters (we have labels on dcs
>
> /
>
> rooms
>
> / rows and server racks so we can map C* racks to storage or
>
> network
>
> arrays
>
> internaly)
> - possibility to have multiple C* nodes on a single K8S host
>
> (because
>
> internal clouds are not really clouds, they have limited resources)
> - custom C* image selection,
> - custom bootstrap script that lets you configure C* as you want
>
> using
>
> ConfigMaps,
> - the ability to mount different volumes wherever they wanted,
> - the possibility to run any number of sidecars alongside C* for
>
> custom
>
> probes in our case
>
> This makes CassKop quite powerful and flexible.
> We made sure that all those options are not enabled by default so
>
> one
>
> can
>
> just pop a simple 3 node cluster quickly
>
> On the other hand cass-operator had an interesting way of
>
> configuring
>
> C*
>
> just inside the CRD using cass-config. This is simple and elegant
>
> so
>
> we are
>
> implementing it as well for the support of C* 4
>
> Now for the future, there are 3 choices in my opinion:
> - start from scratch (or John’s repo) by cherry picking bits from
>
> all
>
> operators. This is possible but will take some time / effort to
>
> have
>
> something usable. And then it will be compared to cass-operator and
> CassKop. I don’t see Orange contributing too much here as we
>
> believe
>
> CassKop to be a much better starting point
> - choose cass-operator: it is not on offer right now so let’s see
>
> if
>
> it
>
> does. I think Orange could contribute some bits inherited from
>
> CassKop
>
> if
>
> it is agreed by the community. Not sure it would be enough for us
>
> to
>
> use
>
> it.
> - choose CassKop: we would be delighted to donate it and contribute
>
> with
>
> some committers (including the original author who now works for
>
> AWS).
>
> It
>
> would then become the community operator but there would be
>
> cass-operator
>
> alongside probably. But Cass-operator is made to make it easier for
> Datastax to manage customer clusters by imposing some
>
> configuration.
>
> It
>
> make sense for their needs, so may be 2 operators. We don’t know
>
> how
>
> backup/restore will be handled here with medusa being adapted to
>
> K8s
>
> Sorry again for being long but 2 years of work deserve some lines
>
> of
>
> text
>
> :)
>
> I just saw your message Patrick but this was written already so we
>
> gain a
>
> week.
>
> Franck
>
> On 24 Sep 2020, at 10:08, Benjamin Lerer <
>
> benjamin.le...@datastax.com
>
> <mailto:benjamin.le...@datastax.com>> wrote:
>
> I realise there are meeting logs, but getting a wider discourse
>
> with
>
> non-stakeholder input might help to build a community consensus? It
>
> doesn't
>
> seem like it can hurt at this point, anyway.
>
> +1
>
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 9:21 PM Benedict Elliott Smith
>
> <benedict@apache.
>
> org<mailto:bened...@apache.org>> wrote:
>
> Perhaps it helps to widen the field of discussion to the dev list?
>
> It might help if each of the stakeholder organisations state their
>
> view on
>
> the situation, including why they would or would not support a
>
> given
>
> approach/operator, and what (preferably specific) circumstances
>
> might
>
> lead
>
> them to change their mind?
>
> I realise there are meeting logs, but getting a wider discourse
>
> with
>
> non-stakeholder input might help to build a community consensus? It
>
> doesn't
>
> seem like it can hurt at this point, anyway.
>
> On 23/09/2020, 17:13, "John Sanda" <john.sa...@gmail.com<mailto:
>
> john.
>
> sa...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I want to point out that pretty much everything being discussed in
>
> this
>
> thread has been discussed at length during the SIG meetings. I
>
> think
>
> it is
>
> worth noting because we are pretty much still have the same
>
> conversation.
>
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 12:03 PM Benedict Elliott Smith <
>
> benedict@apache.
>
> org<mailto:bened...@apache.org>> wrote:
>
> I don't think there's anything about a code drop that's not "The
>
> Apache
>
> Way"
>
> If there's a consensus (or even strong majority) amongst invested
>
> parties,
>
> I don't see why we could not adopt an operator directly into the
>
> project.
>
> It's possible a green field approach might lead to fewer hard
>
> feelings, as
>
> everyone is in the same boat. Perhaps all operators are also
>
> suboptimal
>
> and
> could be improved with a rewrite? But I think coordinating a lot of
> different entities around an empty codebase is particularly
>
> challenging. I
>
> actually think it could be better for cohesion and collaboration to
>
> have a
>
> suboptimal but substantive starting point.
>
> On 23/09/2020, 16:11, "Stefan Miklosovic" < stefan.miklosovic@
> instaclustr.com<mailto:stefan.mikloso...@instaclustr.com>> wrote:
>
> I think that from Instaclustr it was stated quite clearly multiple times
> that we are "fine to throw it away" if there is something
>
> better
>
> and more wide-spread.Indeed, we have invested a lot of time in the
> operator but it was not useless at all, we gained a lot of quite
>
> unique
>
> knowledge how to put all pieces together. However, I think that this space
> is going to be quite fragmented and "balkanized", which
>
> is
>
> not always a bad thing, but in a quite narrow area as Kubernetes
>
> operator
>
> is, I just do not see how 4 operators are going to be beneficial
>
> for
>
> ordinary people ("official" from community, ours, Datastax one and
>
> CassKop
>
> (without any significant order)). Sure, innovation and healthy
>
> competition
>
> is important but to what extent ...
> One can start a Cassandra cluster on Kubernetes just so many times
> differently and nobody really likes a vendor lock-in. People
>
> wanting
>
> to run a cluster on K8S realise that there are three operators,
>
> each
>
> backed by a private business entity, and the community operator is
>
> not
>
> there ... Huh, interesting ... One may even start to question what
>
> is
>
> wrong with these folks that it takes three companies to build their own
> solution.
>
> Having said that, to my perception, Cassandra community just does
>
> not
>
> have enough engineers nor contributors to keep 4 operators alive at the
> same time (I wish I was wrong) so the idea of selecting the
>
> best
>
> one or to merge obvious things and approaches together is
>
> understandable,
>
> even if it meant we eventually sunset ours. In addition, nobody
>
> from
>
> big
>
> players is going to contribute to the code
> base of the other one, for obvious reasons, so channeling and
>
> directing
>
> this effort into something common for a community seems to be the only
> reasonable way of cooperation.
>
> It is quite hard to bootstrap this if the donation of the code in
>
> big
>
> chunks / whole repo is out of question as it is not the "Apache
>
> way"
>
> (there was some thread running here about this in more depth a
>
> while
>
> ago) and we basically need to start from scratch which is quite
> demotivating, we are just inventing the wheel and nobody is up to
>
> it.
>
> It is like people are waiting for that to happen so they can jump
>
> in
>
> "once it is the thing" but it will never materialise or at least
>
> the
>
> hurdle to kick it off is unnecessarily high. Nobody is going to
>
> invest
>
> in this heavily if there is already a working operator from
>
> companies
>
> mentioned above. As I understood it, one reason of not choosing the way of
> donating it all is that "the learning and community building should happen
> in organic manner and we just can not accept the
>
> donation",
>
> but is not it true that it is easier to build a community around something
> which is already there rather than trying to build
>
> it
>
> around an idea which is quite hard to dedicate to?
>
> On Wed, 23 Sep 2020 at 15:28, Joshua McKenzie <
>
> jmcken...@apache.org
>
> <mailto:jmcken...@apache.org>> wrote:
>
> I think there's significant value to the community in trying to coalesce
> on a single approach,
> I agree. Unfortunately in this case, the parties with a vested
>
> interest
>
> and
> written operators came to the table and couldn't agree to coalesce on a
> single approach. John Sanda attempted to start an initiative to
>
> write a
>
> best-of-breed combining choice parts of each operator, but that
>
> effort
>
> did
>
> not gain traction.
>
> Which is where my hypothesis comes from that if there were a clear
> "better
> fit" operator to start from we wouldn't be in a deadlock; the
>
> correct
>
> choice would be obvious. Reasonably so, every engineer that's
>
> written
>
> something is going to want that something to be used and not thrown away
> in
> favor of another something without strong evidence as to why that's the
> better choice.
>
> As far as I know, nobody has made a clear case as to a more
>
> compelling
>
> place to start in terms of an operator donation the project then
> collaborates on. There's no mass adoption evidence nor feature
>
> enumeration
>
> that I know of for any of the approaches anyone's taken, so the
> discussions
> remain stalled.
>
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 7:18 AM, Benedict Elliott Smith <
>
> benedict@apache.
>
> org<mailto:bened...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> I think there's significant value to the community in trying to coalesce
> on a single approach, earlier than later. This is an opportunity to expand
> the number of active organisations involved directly in the Apache
> Cassandra project, as well as to more quickly expand the project's
> functionality into an area we consider urgent and important. I think it
> would be a real shame to waste this opportunity. No doubt it will be hard,
> as organisations have certain built-in investments in their own
> approaches.
>
> I haven't participated in these calls as I do not consider myself to have
> the relevant experience and expertise, and have other focuses on the
> project. I just wanted to voice a vote in favour of trying to bring
>
> the
>
> different organisations together on a single approach if possible. Is
> there
> anything the project can do to help this happen?
>
> On 23/09/2020, 03:04, "Ben Bromhead" <b...@instaclustr.com<mailto:
>
> ben@
>
> instaclustr.com>> wrote:
>
> I think there is certainly an appetite to donate and standardise on a
> given operator (as mentioned in this thread).
>
> I personally found the SIG hard to participate in due to time zones
>
> and
>
> the synchronous nature of it.
>
> So while it was a great forum to dive into certain details for a subset of
> participants and a worthwhile endeavour, I wouldn't paint it as an
> accurate
> reflection of community intent.
>
> I don't think that any participants want to continue down the path of "let
> a thousand flowers bloom". That's why we are looking towards CasKop
>
> (as
>
> well as a number of technical reasons).
>
> Some of the recorded meetings and outputs can also be found if you are
> interested in some primary sources
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/
> Cassandra+Kubernetes+Operator+SIG
> .
>
> From what I understand second-hand from talking to people on the SIG
> calls,
>
> there was a general inability to agree on an existing operator as a
> starting point and not much engagement on taking best of breed from the
> various to combine them. Seems to leave us in the "let a thousand flowers
> bloom" stage of letting operators grow in the ecosystem and seeing which
> ones meet the needs of end users before talking about adopting one into
> the
> foundation.
>
> Great to hear that you folks are joining forces though! Bodes well for C*
> users that are wanting to run things on k8s.
>
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 4:26 AM, Ben Bromhead <
>
> b...@instaclustr.com
>
> <mailto:b...@instaclustr.com>
>
> wrote:
>
> For what it's worth, a quick update from me:
>
> CassKop now has at least two organisations working on it
>
> substantially
>
> (Orange and Instaclustr) as well as the numerous other
>
> contributors.
>
> Internally we will also start pointing others towards CasKop once a few
> things get merged. While we are not yet sunsetting our operator yet, it
>
> is
>
> certainly looking that way.
>
> I'd love to see the community adopt it as a starting point for working
> towards whatever level of functionality is desired.
>
> Cheers
>
> Ben
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 2:37 PM John Sanda <
> john.sa...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 5:27 PM Josh McKenzie <
>
> jmcken...@apache.org
>
> wrote:
>
> There's basically 1 java driver in the C* ecosystem. We have 3? 4? or
>
> more
>
> operators in the ecosystem. Has one of them hit a clear
>
> supermajority
>
> of
>
> adoption that makes it the de facto default and makes sense to pull it
>
> into
>
> the project?
>
> We as a project community were pretty slow to move on building a PoV
>
> around
>
> kubernetes so we find ourselves in a situation with a bunch of contenders
> for inclusion in the project. It's not clear to me what heuristics we'd
>
> use
>
> to gauge which one would be the best fit for inclusion outside letting
> community adoption speak.
>
> ---
> Josh McKenzie
>
> We actually talked a good bit on the SIG call earlier today about
> heuristics. We need to document what functionality an operator should
> include at level 0, level 1, etc. We did discuss this a good bit during
> some of the initial SIG meetings, but I guess it wasn't really a focal
> point at the time. I think we should also provide references to existing
> operator projects and possibly other related projects. This would benefit
> both community users as well as people working on these projects.
>
> - John
>
> --
>
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>
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