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Matt Spilchen

Matt Spilchen

Senior Systems Software Engineer

I have over 20 years' experience as a developer on various database engines. Most recently with Vertica, I led the development of Vertica’s integration with Kubernetes. I am the key contributor to Vertica's open-source Kubernetes operator (https://github.com/vertica/vertica-kubernetes), which aims to automate the management of the database.

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Kubernetes and containers

Vertica on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Introduction In my previous blog, I showed you the steps to run Vertica on Kubernetes (K8s) on your laptop. That’s fine if you want to try things out on a small scale, but what if you want to run it on a larger system? In this blog, I will teach you how to deploy Vertica...
Kubernetes and containers

Vertica on Kubernetes

This blog post has been updated from an earlier one to use new features that make deploying on your own system easier. Vertica released the VerticaDB operator in August, 2021, which began Vertica’s integration with Kubernetes. The operator automates many Vertica administrator tasks, such as restarting Vertica if any of the nodes go down, upgrading...