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Cassandra Volume Expansion

This guide will give an overview on how KubeDB Ops-manager operator expand the volume of various component of Cassandra.

Before You Begin

• You should be familiar with the following KubeDB concepts:
  • Cassandra
  • CassandraOpsRequest

How Volume Expansion Process Works

The following diagram shows how KubeDB Ops-manager operator expand the volumes of Cassandra database components. Open the image in a new tab to see the enlarged version.

  

The Volume Expansion process consists of the following steps:

1. At first, a user creates a Cassandra Custom Resource (CR).

2. KubeDB Provisioner operator watches the Cassandra CR.

3. When the operator finds a Cassandra CR, it creates required number of PetSets and related necessary stuff like secrets, services, etc.

4. Each PetSet creates a Persistent Volume according to the Volume Claim Template provided in the petset configuration. This Persistent Volume will be expanded by the KubeDB Ops-manager operator.

5. Then, in order to expand the volume of the various components (ie. Combined, Broker, Controller) of the Cassandra, the user creates a CassandraOpsRequest CR with desired information.

6. KubeDB Ops-manager operator watches the CassandraOpsRequest CR.

7. When it finds a CassandraOpsRequest CR, it halts the Cassandra object which is referred from the CassandraOpsRequest. So, the KubeDB Provisioner operator doesn’t perform any operations on the Cassandra object during the volume expansion process.

8. Then the KubeDB Ops-manager operator will expand the persistent volume to reach the expected size defined in the CassandraOpsRequest CR.

9. After the successful Volume Expansion of the related PetSet Pods, the KubeDB Ops-manager operator updates the new volume size in the Cassandra object to reflect the updated state.

10. After the successful Volume Expansion of the Cassandra components, the KubeDB Ops-manager operator resumes the Cassandra object so that the KubeDB Provisioner operator resumes its usual operations.

In the next docs, we are going to show a step-by-step guide on Volume Expansion of various Cassandra database components using CassandraOpsRequest CRD.