How to deploy TiKV only?

[stevefan1999-personal]

Question

I would like to try out SurrealDB. They have a TiKV backend, so obviously I would search for TiKV operator, but that is dead and I was redirected here, but so far I did not find any options to disable TiDB.

I don't TiDB because I don't use MySQL. It is unnecessary so it is best to remove it

[csuzhangxc]

.Spec.TiDB can be nil when deploying TidbCluster resources, but you may encounter some other issues as TiDB Operator is built for TiDB clusters.

[zerix]

have any solution?

[yiduoyunQ]

there has no limit in operator, you can deploy TidbCluster with .spec.tidb.replica: 0 to not use tidb, then you need find a way to directly use tikv as a RawKV DB, you can find introduction in doc https://tikv.org/docs/6.5/develop/rawkv/introduction/

[zerix]

add a spec.tidb.enabled field may be a awsome way.

[yiduoyunQ]

test as csuzhangxc said, it's ok to just omit whole spec.tidb part , so there seems no need to add enabled field.