Product Update: Helm Charts for InfluxDB Clustered

By Charles Mahler / Product
Aug 13, 2024

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InfluxDB Clustered is an on-prem offering of InfluxDB 3.0, allowing you to deploy the newest version of InfluxDB on your own hardware and manage it with your team. With InfluxDB Clustered, you get high availability and performance out of the box and the ability to fine-tune InfluxDB to fit the performance requirements of your specific use case.

InfluxDB Clustered is deployed and managed using Kubernetes. For teams without experienced Kubernetes users, it could be a challenge to configure and deploy InfluxDB Clustered. To make operating InfluxDB Clustered easier for customers, the InfluxDB team created an official Helm chart to streamline the deployment process.

What are Helm charts for InfluxDB Clustered?

The InfluxDB Clustered Helm chart provides a standardized way to run InfluxDB Clustered without requiring significant Kubernetes experience. The Helm chart encapsulates everything needed to deploy, manage, and scale InfluxDB. Here are some specific benefits:

  • Faster deployments - Quickly deploy InfluxDB 3.0 Clustered on Kubernetes with Helm, leveraging configurations optimized for performance and stability.
  • Scalability - InfluxDB Clustered hardware resources can be scaled up or down easily using the Helm chart.
  • Customization - Using the Helm chart, you can easily customize your deployment by changing the pre-defined deployment parameters, allowing you to customize InfluxDB Clustered for your specific operational and security requirements.
  • Persistent storage integration - The storage integration allows for data durability across pod restarts and upgrades.
  • Automated upgrades - The Helm chart makes it easy to update your deployment as new versions of InfluxDB Clustered are released.

Getting started with Helm charts for InfluxDB Clustered

InfluxDB Clustered currently has limited availability, so you will need to contact the InfluxDB team as a first step to gain access. From there, you can visit the Helm chart repo and follow the instructions to get started. The InfluxDB Clustered Helm chart has been tested in the following environments:

  • Google Kubernetes Engine
  • AWS EKS
  • Azure Kubernetes Service
  • K3s

For more detailed information on the different configuration parameters available, you can review the InfluxDB Clustered documentation.