This session demonstrates running InfluxDB OSS on a self-hosted cloud platform on Kubernetes and the process of migrating from OSS to the Usage-Based InfluxDB Cloud Platform as well as showcasing the additional features of InfluxDB Cloud including cost benefits of running the same data set on Usage-Based instead of OSS (if there are any).

1. Ana Calin | Senior Software Engineer,
Deployments Team, InfluxData
27.10.2021
The who, the why and the what of
migrating your data.
Migrating from OSS
to InfluxDB Cloud

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Ana Calin
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Software Engineer @ InfluxData
@AnaMariaCalin
@calinah

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Content
Should I stay or should I go?
My InfluxDB OSS setup
Steps to consider
Demo time
Resources

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InfluxDB CLoud

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Deeper insights
Multi-Region & Multi-Cloud
Interoperability across systems
Elastic services
InfluxDB Cloud

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My InfluxDB OSS setup

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Influxdb CLoud
# Installs influxdb2 chart from github.com/influxdata/helm-charts/
helm upgrade --install influxdays --namespace influxdays
influxdata/influxdb2 --values
~/influxdays-demo/influxdb2_values.yaml
# Installs telegraf chart from github.com/influxdata/helm-charts/
helm upgrade --install telegraf --namespace influxdays
influxdata/telegraf --values
~/influxdays-demo/telegraf_values.yaml

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~|⇒ kubectl get all -n influxdays
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
pod/influxdays-influxdb2-0 1/1 Running 0 28h
pod/telegraf-56798579c7-b4nfj 1/1 Running 0 21h
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
service/influxdays-influxdb2 ClusterIP 10.126.77.243 <none> 80/TCP 28h
service/telegraf ClusterIP 10.126.6.166 <none> 8125/UDP 21h
NAME READY UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE AGE
deployment.apps/telegraf 1/1 1 1 21h
NAME DESIRED CURRENT READY AGE
replicaset.apps/telegraf-56798579c7 1 1 1 21h
NAME READY AGE
statefulset.apps/influxdays-influxdb2 1/1 28h

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Before migrating

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Prerequisites for migration
• an InfluxDB Cloud account with an `org_id` and bucket
name - https://cloud2.influxdata.com/signup
• a write token
• quick writes headroom
• headroom for the cardinality you are adding
• a place to hold the LP data x 2 - S3 or GCS or similar

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Influxdays Demo

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Resources
https:/
/cloud2.influxdata.com/signup
https:/
/github.com/calinah/influxdays-demo
https:/
/docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v2.0/ref
erence/cli/influxd/inspect/export-lp/
https:/
/docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v2.0/ref
erence/sample-data/#noaa-ndbc-data

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Thank You

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Questions?