Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Talk by Matthias Crauwels
socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/presentations/data-kubernetes-stateless-storage
Everyone is running their applications on Kubernetes these days, most of the time the application servers are stateless so it is easy to do so because the database behind the application is responsible for storing the state. What if you would also want to run you database on the same Kubernetes stack. Will you use stateful sets? Will you use network attached storage? These types of storage are introducing a lot of disk latency because of the mandatory network hops. This is why in many environments the database servers still are dedicated machines that are treated as pets while the rest of the fleet is more like cattle.
In this session I will speak about how we run our databases on Kubernetes by using the local ephemeral storage to store your data and also how we are confident we will not loose it in the process of doing so!
Talk by Matthias Crauwels
socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/presentations/data-kubernetes-stateless-storage
Everyone is running their applications on Kubernetes these days, most of the time the application servers are stateless so it is easy to do so because the database behind the application is responsible for storing the state. What if you would also want to run you database on the same Kubernetes stack. Will you use stateful sets? Will you use network attached storage? These types of storage are introducing a lot of disk latency because of the mandatory network hops. This is why in many environments the database servers still are dedicated machines that are treated as pets while the rest of the fleet is more like cattle.
In this session I will speak about how we run our databases on Kubernetes by using the local ephemeral storage to store your data and also how we are confident we will not loose it in the process of doing so!
