Databases on Kubernetes: Why You Should Care!
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Developers always expected databases to work out-of-the-box, but historically it is the exact opposite. Kubernetes now supports StatefulSets and CRDs, one of the next logical steps is to run databases on it. But why should I do that in the first place? How hard is it? What are the challenges? Is it production ready? All those questions will be answered during a live demo where we will deploy a database, deploy an operator, fail nodes, scale up and down with almost no manual intervention.
Transcript
Developers always expected databases to work out-of-the-box, but historically it is the exact opposite.
Kubernetes now supports StatefulSets and CRDs, one of the next logical steps is to run databases on it. But why should I do that in the first place? How hard is it? What are the challenges? Is it production ready? All those questions will be answered during a live demo where we will deploy a database, deploy an operator, fail nodes, scale up and down with almost no manual intervention.
About the speakers
Speaker, Developer Advocate at Couchbase