A Smooth Sea Never Made a Skillful Sailor

Over the break, I wrote a short tutorial on using CockroachDB with Django. This is a slight derivative of that post using Multipass and community edition of CockroachDB. It means it does not require a license and is missing RBAC features but for the purposes of the tutorial, all features of CockroachDB will be present. Since the original tutorial was based on Ubuntu, I decided to use Multipass as it allows me to spin up Ubuntu instances quickly on my Mac. Binaries for multipass are available for Windows and Linux as well. Granted same can be achieved with a virtual machine, docker container or a Vagrant environment, I chose to give this a spin as I was not familiar with the tool. Documentation on installing cockroach can be found at the following link . The video below depicts the process in two steps but once you're inside multipass shell, you can follow the instructions as advertised and download the binary as well as uncompressing it in one step. For the purpo...

This is a short tutorial on using Django with CockroachDB. This tutorial is intended to be a quick ramp up on CockroachDB with Django, in case you're searching for a proper Django tutorial, this is not it. At the time of writing, django-cockroachdb library is available in two versions, (2 and 3) . This post focuses on version 2 specifically. This tutorial is based on the Digital Ocean tutorial using Django with PostgreSQL. I am going to highlight the steps where this tutorial differs from the original. For everything else, we will assume the tutorial is followed as is. Since we’re going to need RBAC features of CockroachDB, we will require an enterprise license, feel free to request a trial or try this tutorial with cockroach demo environment where enterprise features are enabled for 60 minutes, which is plenty to complete this tutorial.