Operations
Ready to operate an externally accessible FoundationDB cluster? You’ll find what you need to know here.
Building a Cluster walks you through installation of an externally accessible cluster on one or more machines. Using FoundationDB in this way is not supported on macOS.
Configuration contains reference information for configuring a new cluster. You should read this document before setting up a cluster for performance testing or production use.
Administration covers administration of an existing externally accessible cluster.
Command Line Interface covers use of the
fdbcli
tool.Machine-Readable Status describes the JSON encoding of a cluster’s status information.
Transport Layer Security describes the Transport Layer Security (TLS) capabilities of FoundationDB, which enable security and authentication through a public/private key infrastructure.
Backup, Restore, and Replication for Disaster Recovery covers the FoundationDB backup tool, which provides an additional level of protection by supporting recovery from disasters or unintentional modification of the database.
Disk snapshot backup and Restore covers disk snapshot based FoundationDB backup tool, which is an alternate backup solution.
Platform Issues describes issues on particular platforms that affect the operation of FoundationDB.
Transaction Tagging gives an overview of transaction tagging, including details about throttling particular tags.
Testing Storage Server (TSS) gives an overview of the Testing Storage Server feature of FoundationDB, which allows you to safely run an untrusted storage engine in a production cluster.
Perpetual Storage Wiggle gives an overview of Perpetual Storage Wiggle feature about how to use it.