Security News > 2021 > May > DataStax K8ssandra now available on any Kubernetes environment

DataStax announced that K8ssandra, an open-source distribution of Apache Cassandra on Kubernetes, is available on any Kubernetes environment including distro-specific integrations for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine, and Azure Kubernetes Service.

"Apache Cassandra is a highly scalable, fast and reliable database and running it on Kubernetes removes many of the operation hurdles around installation, customization and maintenance."

"With the huge adoption for Cassandra users on Kubernetes, projects like K8ssandra will be a huge boost for the Cassandra community, giving it a complete ecosystem of capabilities such as automated repairs, backups and monitoring. We are excited about K8ssandra," said Ravi Madireddy, Lead Software Engineer at Cloudleaf.

K8ssandra combines the flexible, cloud-native benefits of Kubernetes together with the global scale of Cassandra - the NoSQL database used by leading enterprises including Apple, Instagram, Netflix, Sky, Spotify, TikTok, Uber and Yelp.

"There's no question that Kubernetes is ready for stateful, production workloads and we are thrilled to see K8ssandra as another open source stack," said Bob Wise, General Manager, Kubernetes, AWS. According to a 2020 CNCF survey, the use of containers in production has increased to 92%, up from 84% last year, and up 300% from 2016, and Kubernetes use in production has increased to 83%, up from 78% in 2019.

"The challenge is, how do we make data fluid and scalable? How do we make it modern and containerized? It's exciting to see the community engagement behind K8ssandra and the many other projects that are breaking down the barriers to running data on Kubernetes," said Sam Ramji, Chief Strategy Officer at DataStax.

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