Summary: We talk with Aaron Ploetz of Target about how they implemented Cassandra on Kubernetes and celebrate Aaron passing Jonathan Ellis to the top of the Cassandra tag in Stackoverflow. Highlights! 0:15 - David welcomes Cassandra MVP Aaron Ploetz to the show and celebrates Aaron passing Jonathan Ellis to the top of the Cassandra tag in Stack Overflow 1:12 - Aaron explains how Target is moving toward on-demand deployments of Cassandra using Kubernetes, starting on Target’s private cloud running OpenStack 2:42 - Aaron shares about testing this solution, including use of cassandra-stress. In one interesting case a cluster destroyed inadvertently was trivially rebuilt by Kubernetes pointing to the same backing store, with no perceived outage to the client. 4:17 - These methods apply to deployment of other distributed data stores such as Redis 5:30 - The performance test results observed by Aaron’s team for Cassandra on Kubernetes were competitive with non-Kubernetes Cassandra deployments in their external cloud provider 6:25 - Most of the work in running Cassandra on Kubernetes consists of building the initial container images 7:27 - Aaron talks about his work on the book Seven NoSQL Databases in a Week for Packt Publishing
