Developer guide

This part of the Sasquatch documentation contains information primarily of interest to developers of Sasquatch itself. A Sasquatch developer is responsible for maintaining the Sasquatch components and its deployments.

Sasquatch architecture

• Architecture Overview
  • Kafka
  • Kafka Connect
  • InfluxDB Enterprise

Guides

• Deploying into a new environment
  • Enable Sasquatch in Phalanx
  • Gather IP addresses and update Phalanx config
  • Provision DNS for TLS certificate
  • Configure Gafaelfawr OIDC authentication
  • Merge your Phalanx branch!
• Strimzi upgrades
  • Kafka upgrades
• Shutdown Kafka gracefully
• Kafka broker migration
• Managing InfluxDB Sink connectors
  • Configuration
    • Selecting Kafka topics
    • Timestamp
    • Tags
  • Operations
    • Deployment
    • List, stop and start connectors
    • Monitoring
• Managing Shards in an InfluxDB Cluster
  • Listing Shards
  • Checking data integrity
  • Shard movement
  • Backup and restore
• Adding a Sasquatch subchart
  • External Charts vs. Local Subcharts
  • Adding External Charts
  • Adding Local Subcharts
  • Using Subcharts for Application Resources
• Backup and restore
  • Enabling Backup Items
  • Configure Backup Schedule
  • Persistent Storage Configuration
  • Verifying a Backup
  • Suspending a Backup
  • Restoring from a Backup
  • Restoring from a Chronograf backup
  • Restoring from a Kapacitor backup
  • Restoring from an InfluxDB Enterprise Incremental backup
    • Executing into the Sasquatch Restore Pod
    • Creating a Restore Job

Troubleshooting

• Schema Registry Pod cannot start because of an invalid SSL certificate