Autonomous Operator

The Couchbase cloud-native database provides technologies that empower organizations to build and run scalable stateful applications in modern, dynamic environments such as public, private, and hybrid clouds. Containers, service meshes, microservices, immutable infrastructure, and declarative APIs exemplify this approach.

Couchbase’s cloud-native database integrates Couchbase Server with cloud-native open source technologies such as Kubernetes, Prometheus, Helm, CNI, CoreDNS, Operator Framework, Ceph, Gluster, Istio Service Mesh, Open Service Broker API, and Open Telemetry.

Auto-scaling Couchbase services

Couchbase’s autoscaling monitors the cluster and automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady and predictable performance at the lowest possible cost based on the pre-defined thresholds for all Couchbase services. As a result, organizations can provide a consistent experience with no unexpected costs (which might occur with unchecked scaling or in the absence of cluster autoscaling) during peak times.

Automated day-2 operations

Autonomous Operator eliminates and simplifies day-2 operations of database management – self-healing, automated rolling/bulk upgrade, security, backup, and data replication. It fully manages one or more Couchbase deployments so that you don’t need to worry about the operational complexities of running Couchbase. Not only does the Operator automatically administer your Couchbase cluster, but it also manages the cluster according to Couchbase best practices. All of which frees up IT departments from time-consuming administrative tasks, helping them to accelerate innovation.

High availability across distributed infrastructure

Leveraging Kubernetes labels, the Autonomous Operator can automatically schedule pod creation across failure domains (cloud availability zones) and ensure that they get added to the correct Couchbase server groups for rack/zone awareness. Combined with support for cross-datacenter replication and security (TLS), the Autonomous Operator can automatically and securely recover a Couchbase cluster, even after the largest of physical infrastructure failures, all while remaining available to your customers and applications.