Maximizing Self-Managed Apache Cassandra with Kubernetes

DataStax has introduced Mission Control, an all-in-one platform for managing large-scale enterprise Apache Cassandra® clusters. Built on Kubernetes, it simplifies distributed database operations, observability, and deployment. The platform enables developers to focus on building AI applications instead of their databases. When a cluster is created inside of Mission Control, Kubernetes pods are created for each of the database cluster nodes, along with pods for Cassandra Reaper, Data API, Mimir (metrics and observability), and Loki (logs). These extras usually require extra deployment steps but are seamlessly, automatically installed and configured by leveraging Kubernetes. Mission Control greatly simplifies the distributed AI data paradigm, providing a path for information technology organizations to drive business value.