They told us, “Don’t run databases on Kubernetes.” We heard, “Challenge accepted.” This is the story of how we went from handcrafted Postgres chaos to a stable, CNCF-aligned DBaaS using CloudNativePG over the years — and lived to tell the tale.
We started with containers, then pinned nodes in Kubernetes (spoiler: not scalable). Zalando’s operator with Patroni got us partway, but the real leap came with CloudNativePG: rebuilt from scratch, capable of autopilot.
You’ll hear real incidents (yes, including “the one with the wrong PVC”), lessons learned, and how we’ve moved from tickets to self-service via GitOps. So what happens when YAML becomes your new DBA?
This is a story of maturity, simplicity, real benefits CNCF brings to your project. Not just from a single project, but from the whole ecosystem evolving over the years in networking, deployment, and much more.
Whether you're building a platform or escaping vendor lock-in, come laugh, learn, and reconsider running DBs in Kubernetes.