Company
Date Published
Author
Sahni, Manager Solutions Architect, Couchbase
Word count
3281
Language
English
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None

Summary

Modern business applications require tools that ensure speed of development, infrastructure stability, and ability to scale. Container orchestration tools like Kubernetes abstract away physical machines it manages, providing pods and containers as ephemeral units that can self-heal in case of failure. Persistent Volumes enable data recovery quickly by remounting storage volumes to a newly elected Pod. Couchbase Autonomous Operator uses this technology to make management and orchestration of Couchbase Cluster seamless on the Kubernetes platform. The operator creates persistent volumes using Storage Classes offered by different cloud vendors, making it easy to use cloud-native storage solutions. In the event of pod or container failure, Kubernetes re-instantiates a new pod/container automatically and remounts the persistent volumes, ensuring fast recovery and maintaining SLA during infrastructure failure recovery.