Cloud-native Camunda on Kubernetes with Vitess?

Camunda 7 Topics Discussion & Questions
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I’ve got a client that wants to do everything in a cloud-native way that is also cloud vendor neutral.

We like the promise of Vitess for resilience and scalability. It is the MySQL variant created by YouTube and built for Kubernetes. Looks promising.

Before we spend our weekend trying to get this working, has anyone attempted this? Care to share your experience? I know Oracle has released a Kubernetes operator for MySQL, but it doesn’t seem to be mature enough for our purposes.

Thanks,
S.

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Hi Stephen,

I’m late to the party here, but was wondering how this went for you?

-Alastair

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Hi Alastair,
We do have Camunda up and running on Kubernetes. We ended up opting for Postgres. We use one of the K8S operators built for Postgres. I can’t recall which one - I could check if you are interested.

We are embedding Camunda in each service and handling inter-service communication via Kafka. So far so good - but it is still early days for Kafka as the bus. We are hard-core proponents of Domain Driven Design so, for us, a “service” is demarcated by a transactional boundary… just to give you a sense of the size of a service.

We also hijack CMMN for service orchestration.