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Self-managed Couchbase for Kubernetes

Autonomous Operator

Autonomous Operator makes it easy to manage and scale Couchbase, a stateful database that stores and tracks your important data across cloud environments. With seamless integration with popular platforms like Kubernetes, it enables businesses to run reliable, high-performance applications alongside modern microservices, supporting hybrid and multi-cloud strategies without vendor lock-in.

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Couchbase Autonomous Operator is certified for multiple Kubernetes-based clouds.

Couchbase and Kubernetes, a powerful DevOps solution

The Cloud-Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) packaging of Couchbase is a full-stack integration of Couchbase Server, Couchbase Autonomous Operator, and key CNCF projects, including Kubernetes, Prometheus, Helm, CoreDNS, and more. As the main component of the stack, Autonomous Operator enables DevOps teams to deploy, auto-scale, and manage Couchbase as a stateful database within a Kubernetes microservices architecture. Certified for Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes services from AWS (EKS), Microsoft (AKS), Google (GKE), and Rancher (SUSE), Couchbase offers a powerful solution for modern Kubernetes cloud computing environments.

Escape the common struggles of cloud deployments

Fast

All the speed, scale, and power of Couchbase’s distributed database in a ready-made CNCF-friendly, Kubernetes packaging.

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Affordable

Manage and control Couchbase your way, in your cloud, with your microservices applications and save the expense of DBaaS platforms.

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Versatile

Use Couchbase’s multi-purpose NoSQL database to supply your applications’ JSON data, and seamlessly grow your environment.

Manage microservices apps

Easy

DevOps can deploy and scale Couchbase clusters up and down automatically within a microservices architecture, using their preferred CNCF observability tools.

Scale easily

Autonomous Operator key capabilities

Couchbase on containers and Kubernetes provides a powerful cloud-native data platform to automate database management. Couchbase Autonomous Operator enables DevOps teams to run, auto-scale, and manage Couchbase as a stateful distributed database alongside their stateless microservices applications.

  • Auto-scaling Couchbase services

    Automate database management – self-healing, sharding, upgrades, security, backups, and data replication.

  • Active-active geo-distribution

    Ensure always-on high availability and flexible global replication with cross data center replication (XDCR) that can scale and evolve with your business.

  • HA across distributed infrastructures

    Schedule pod creation across availability zones inside Couchbase server groups for rack and zone awareness.

  • Native Kubernetes integration

    Couchbase is the first NoSQL vendor to have native integration with Kubernetes and today it uses 20+ CNCF projects.

  • Microservice architecture

    Couchbase makes an excellent, feature-rich, stateful data store for stateless microservices applications.

  • Multi-dimensional scaling (MDS)

    MDS scales Couchbase services independently, matching application performance needs with infrastructure resources.

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Couchbase Enterprise vs. Community Edition

Autonomous Operator for Kubernetes
Automated cluster provisioning
Automated recovery
High availability across distributed infrastructure
Support persistent storage
Centralized configuration management
Automated upgrade of Couchbase clusters
Integrated Couchbase resource validation
Helm support
Public connectivity for Couchbase clients
Support for public Kubernetes services
Rolling upgrade of Kubernetes clusters
TLS certificate rotation
Automated backup and restore
Couchbase XDCR management
Prometheus metrics collection
Mutual TLS support
Auto-scaling Couchbase services
Cluster hibernation
Support istio/service mesh
Centralized and standardized logging using Fluent Bit
Enterprise Edition
Community Edition

Autonomously run stateful applications for faster innovation

Reduce your DevOps workload by running Couchbase as an autonomous, fully managed stateful database application next to your microservices applications within the same Kubernetes architecture.

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Hybrid cloud and multicloud

We provide a cloud-agnostic application deployment and management platform that treats cloud providers like commodities and enables you to migrate between clouds freely.

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Automated operational best practices

Couchbase’s Kubernetes operator simplifies database management by automating complex tasks like scaling, backups, upgrades, and self-healing. This powerful DevOps solution reduces complexity by up to 95% by ensuring best practices are consistently applied for efficient deployment and management of Couchbase.

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What customers are saying

  • “We need to have a robust supply chain as well as a good frontline sales application to be able to manage orders and deliver products.”

    Madhav Mekala, Director of Mobile App Development, PepsiCo

    30,000

    users

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  • “Couchbase is a highly scalable, distributed data store that plays a critical role in LinkedIn’s caching systems.”

    Michael Kehoe, Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer, LinkedIn

    10+

    million queries per second

    <4ms

    avg latency for 2.5+ billion items

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  • “Our digital showroom concept completely reimagines the traditional buying approach and establishes a new fashion industry benchmark for sales.”

    Daniel Grieder, CEO, Tommy Hilfiger

    66%

    reduction in buying trip duration

    80%

    cut in sample production

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Explore related resources

  • DATASHEET

    Couchbase Autonomous Operator

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  • DOCUMENTATION

    Configure for Red Hat OpenShift

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  • BLOG

    Microservices using WildFly Swarm, Docker and Couchbase

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