Building a Database as a Service on Kubernetes
Stateful, scalable storage on Kubernetes is an unsolved problem. Creating it as a service is even more difficult. The cloud-native ecosystem offers many tools such as the operator-sdk, Prometheus, Gra …
| Talk Title | Building a Database as a Service on Kubernetes |
| Speakers | Lucy Burns (Product Manager, PlanetScale), Abhi Vaidyanatha (Software Engineer, PlanetScale) |
| Conference | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America |
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| Location | San Diego, CA, USA |
| Date | Nov 15-21, 2019 |
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| Slides | Talk Slides |
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Stateful, scalable storage on Kubernetes is an unsolved problem. Creating it as a service is even more difficult. The cloud-native ecosystem offers many tools such as the operator-sdk, Prometheus, Grafana, etcd, Vitess, and much more, but integrating them isn’t necessarily intuitive.Two of PlanetScale’s employees that have engineered and managed the project describe the journey of leveraging all of these open source technologies to build out a database as a service on Kubernetes.
