Components
How to configure a NiFi component
Choose one of two options to integrate Apache NiFi with the Data Platform Stack. Create a new NiFi cluster within the Data Platform Stack Integrate externally created NiFi cluster with Data Platform Stack (Option 1) Create a new NiFi cluster within ...
How to configure Istio component
Choose one of two options to integrate StreamSets Data Collector with the Data Platform Stack. Create a new StreamSets Data Collector cluster within the Data Platform Stack Integrate externally created StreamSets Data Collector cluster with Data ...
How to configure a Dremio component
Dremio is a data lake engine that liberates big data with live, interactive queries directly on cloud data lake storage. Dremio delivers secure, self-service data access and lightning-fast queries directly on cloud providers AWS, GCP, or Azure. In ...
How to configure an AWS and K8S for DaaS component
Amazon Web Services (AWS) AWS is one of the most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platforms providing on-demand cloud computing platforms. It offers over 175 fully-featured services from data centers globally. Kubernetes is a system for ...
How to configure a GCP and K8S component
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a suite of cloud computing services, including computing, data storage, data analytics, and machine learning. Google Cloud Platform provides infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, and serverless ...
How to configure a StreamSets Data Collector component
Choose one of two options to integrate StreamSets Data Collector with the Data Platform Stack. Create a new StreamSets Data Collector cluster within the Data Platform Stack Integrate externally created StreamSets Data Collector cluster with Data ...
How to configure a Microservice component
Istio is an open platform for providing a uniform way to integrate microservices, manage traffic flow, enforce policies, and aggregate telemetry data. Istio's control plane provides an abstraction layer over the underlying cluster management ...
How to configure a Kafka component
Kafka is a distributed streaming platform used to publish and subscribe to streams of records. Kafka gets used for fault-tolerant storage. Kafka replicates topic log partitions to multiple servers. Use it to stream data to other data platforms such ...
How to configure a Grafana component
Grafana is open-source visualization and analytics software. Query, visualize and explore key metrics, set an alert to quickly identifying problems with the system to minimize disruption to services. snapblocs uses Grafana with Elastic Stack (ELK) to ...
How to configure an Elastic Stack component
snapblocs use Elastic Observability for providing Observability of the running Data Platform. Observability of the Data Platform ensures that DevOps can easily detect undesirable behaviors (service downtime, errors, slow responses, etc.). And have ...
How to configure an AWS and K8S component
Amazon Web Services (AWS) AWS is one of the most comprehensive and broadly adopted Cloud platforms providing on-demand cloud computing platforms. It offers over 175 fully-featured services from data centers globally. Kubernetes is a system for ...
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AWS Provider Access Method
Add an AWS provider access method to snapblocs before configuring or deploying a stack. When configuring a stack, snapblocs will retrieve some AWS account information such as available VPCs, Subnets, SSH Key Pairs, etc. This information is ...
Architecture as Code vs Infrastructure as Code
The ‘as code’ paradigm is about being able to reproduce and/or restore a full environment within minutes based on recipes and automation, managed as code. Therefore, the ‘as Code’ approach provides repeatability, share-ability, versioning in ...
Proven Architecture Blueprints
snapblocs Architecture Blueprints provide proven architecture that delivers common Data Platform use cases, making it simple to provision and manage Data Platform stacks. snapblocs Architecture Blueprints consist of open source components and proven ...
Built-in Observability
Observability is the measure of how well its external outputs can determine the internal states of a system. In other words, Observability describes the degree to which systems and services are behaving based on collected data. There are three ...
How to Add Cloud Provider Access Key
When deploying a snapblocs stack, snapblocs provisions the stack within the customer's cloud account. The provider access key is used to allow snapblocs to access your cloud provider environment for deploying your stacks, collecting statistics of ...