Agreed, the deployment was very easy, that was one of the reasons I wanted to switch to Cockroach from MySQL+Galera. It took me less than a day to get ansible

Agreed, the deployment was very easy, that was one of the reasons I wanted to switch to Cockroach from MySQL+Galera. It took me less than a day to get ansible roles to set up a Cockroach cluster, but around a week for the MySQL Galera cluster, to get it completely right. And that was starting with somebody else's Maria+Galera Ansible role. My blocker was that I'm using it in part for Postfix maps, and the Postfix pgsql module can't be configured to us anything but LATIN-1 encoding, and Cockroach only supports UTF-8.