At Flipkart, we run large scale hbase clusters on kubernetes, which is hosting hundreds of use cases with thousands of stateful pods on kubernetes. When we started this thought process of running flipkart scale hbase clusters on kubernetes, little did we know what it would take and challenges involved. more

Kubernetes operators are software extensions to Kubernetes that make use of custom resources to manage applications and their components. The operator pattern aims to capture the key aim of a human operator who is managing a service or set of services. Human operators who look after specific applications and services have deep knowledge of how the system ought to behave, how to deploy it, and how… more

Apache HBase is an open-source non-relational distributed database modeled after Google’s Bigtable and written in Java. It is developed as part of Apache Software Foundation’s Apache Hadoop project and runs on top of HDFS, providing Bigtable-like capabilities for Hadoop. more