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Slash CI/CD Bills (Part 1): Using Hetzner Cloud GitHub Runners for ClickHouse Builds
If controlling CI/CD bills is essential for you or you’re interested in exploring non-AWS-oriented runner solutions for your projects hosted on GitHub, we invite you to read on and see how using Hetzner Cloud GitHub runners for ClickHouse helped us control our ClickHouse CI/CD bills
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Adventures in ClickHouse Development: Running Integration Tests, Part 2
In Part 2 of this two-part series, we will pick up where we left off and first try to run all the integration tests by hand. We will first try the naive approach and then go back to ci-runner.py to get the details of how all the integration tests are executed using this script. After that, we will look into what it takes to solve the problem with the Docker images that are required for the tests. Finally, we will use a helper test program that we have developed for running integration tests that addresses the pain points that we discover along the way.
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Adventures in ClickHouse Development: Running Integration Tests, Part 1
Most ClickHouse developers rely heavily on tests executed by the CI/CD pipeline. In this two-part article, we will show how you can execute ClickHouse integration tests by hand as well as look into the complexity of the CI/CD pipeline that is used to run all these tests.
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Using Kubernetes Secrets and Environment Variables in Altinity.Cloud
Configuring ClickHouse often involves authentication tokens, credentials, and other sensitive information. Altinity.Cloud has great integration with Kubernetes Secrets and environment variables. In this post we’ll show how easy it is to use the Altinity Cloud Manager (ACM) to integrate the Kubernetes Secrets in your VPC with your ClickHouse configuration.
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Altinity.Cloud is now available from the GCP Marketplace
Altinity.Cloud for ClickHouse® is now available on GCP Marketplace for GCP customers to simplify software licensing, procurement, control, and governance. GCP SaaS subscription for Altinity.Cloud offers pay-as-you-go fully managed ClickHouse-as-a-service. Run it in our GCP cloud account or your GCP account and get billed for the product and services you receive through GCP billing.
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ClickHouse Confidential: Using Kubernetes Secrets with the Altinity Operator
The Altinity Operator for ClickHouse integrates seamlessly with Kubernetes Secrets, which allows users to pass in credentials, set environment variables, and load certificates securely.
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How We Stopped Our ClickHouse DB From Exploding
Read about how Dittofeed, an Altinity.Cloud customer, is using ClickHouse as their primary store of user events and to calculate live user segments.
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Altinity Stable Build for ClickHouse 23.8
After 4 months of testing the latest Altinity Stable Build for ClickHouse 23.8 is ready! Find out about the features that await you.
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2023++
2023 is almost over. In 2023, it took Altinity plenty of running to keep up the momentum, and we managed to run even faster to discover more opportunities for our users and ourselves. Let’s take a look back and see what happened during our 2023 run, and what we expect in 2024.
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Uniting Open Source and Modern Data Stack at OSA CON 2023
OSA CON 2023 brought together creators and users from across the open source analytic community to explore open source, modern data stacks. Dozens of great talks from 53 presenters are now at your fingertips!
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Altinity.Cloud Extends to Microsoft Azure
Altinity.Cloud is now available on Azure. Get started with the best cloud ClickHouse on the market, complete with expert support.
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Altinity.Cloud is now available on the AWS Marketplace
Altinity.Cloud for ClickHouse® is now available on AWS Marketplace for AWS customers to simplify software licensing, procurement, control, and governance. AWS SaaS subscription for Altinity.Cloud offers pay-as-you-go fully managed ClickHouse-as-a-service. Run it in our AWS cloud account or your AWS account and get billed for the product and services you receive through AWS billing. Management[…]
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Boosting ClickHouse Data Lake Access: Better S3 and URL Function Proxy Support
Learn how new proxy support in ClickHouse improves efficient and secure access to data lakes using S3 storage and URL functions.
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Bring Your Own Cloud for ClickHouse
Altinity.Cloud Anywhere’s innovative Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) model offers complete user control of data and simple administration. Learn how to to use Altinity.Cloud in your analytic stack.
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Announcing ARM64 Altinity Stable Builds for ClickHouse
Altinity is excited to announce ARM64 support in Altinity Stable Builds for ClickHouse. Discover multi-arch Docker images and benefits, and dive deep into architectural differences. Find out more in this quick article!
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Bring up ClickHouse on Kubernetes with Argo CD
Argo CD manages applications on Kubernetes. Learn how Argo CD brings up a ClickHouse analytic stack from a GitHub sample project in a few commands. Fork the sample project to introduce full GitOps control for ClickHouse on Kubernetes.
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The Tournament of AWS CPUs in Altinity.Cloud
Dive into our latest blog to explore a rigorous ClickHouse benchmark tournament, featuring AWS’s 7th-gen Intel m7i, AMD m7a, and Graviton m7g instances. With Altinity.Cloud’s easy configuration, discover which instance offers the best price-performance ratio for your cloud operations. Find your optimal AWS instance for ClickHouse deployments through our concise analysis.
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Locking Down ClickHouse Networking (Part 2)
In the second part of this series, we’ll look at how to enable secure connections using SSL and learn how to lock down the server’s access by filtering the hosts and networks from which connections can be made to our server.