The latest articles on DEV Community by Nayan (@nayankalsariya). https://dev.to/nayankalsariya https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F782154%2F5f9e2d98-8bb7-40ed-bcad-387578f69029.png https://dev.to/nayankalsariya en Nayan Tue, 28 Dec 2021 19:36:00 +0000 https://dev.to/nayankalsariya/deploy-cockroachdb-in-a-digitalocean-kubernetes-cluster-3koe https://dev.to/nayankalsariya/deploy-cockroachdb-in-a-digitalocean-kubernetes-cluster-3koe <p>For the <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/community/pages/kubernetes-challenge">DigitalOcean Kubernetes Challenge</a>, I wanted to deploy a database to a managed Kubernetes cluster, and decided to go with <a href="https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/install-cockroachdb.">CockroachDB Core</a>.</p> <p>The process to deploy on Kubernetes was simple. I just followed the instructions in <a href="https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/v21.2/deploy-cockroachdb-with-kubernetes.html,">CockroachDB official documentation</a>, with just one change - In <a href="https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/v21.2/deploy-cockroachdb-with-kubernetes.html#step-1-start-kubernetes">"Step 1. Start Kubernetes"</a>, instead of using hosted GKE or EKS (as mentioned in the docs), I used DigitalOcean's <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/">Managed Kubernetes</a> service.</p> <p>So my "Step 1. Start Kubernetes" was basically:</p> <ul> <li> <a href="https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/how-to/create-clusters/">How to Create Kubernetes Clusters Using the Control Panel</a> from DigitalOcean. I created a 3 node cluster with s-4vcpu-8gb droplets. You should be able to do it with slightly smaller droplets too.</li> </ul> <p>Rest of the steps were as mentioned in the doc:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/v21.2/deploy-cockroachdb-with-kubernetes.html#step-2-start-cockroachdb">Step 2. Start CockroachDB</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/v21.2/deploy-cockroachdb-with-kubernetes.html#step-3-use-the-built-in-sql-client">Step 3. Use the built-in SQL client</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/v21.2/deploy-cockroachdb-with-kubernetes.html#step-4-access-the-db-console">Step 4. Access the DB Console</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/v21.2/deploy-cockroachdb-with-kubernetes.html#step-5-stop-the-cluster">Step 5. Stop the cluster</a></li> </ul> kubernetes digitalocean