Running database on kubernetes has always been an interesting topic. With Kubernetes designing to embrace ephemerality, running database on Kubernetes emerged as a necessity rather than a preference. How did it come about? What tools have been developed to address this need? And where do stand now as a community?

In this session, we will go back to a history lesson, before diving into a hands-on workshop where we will deploy a few different data deployments for our Kubernetes cluster. Through a series of hands-on labs, we aim to highlight the evolution of running data firstly in Kubernetes and how this has become a rapidly emerging field within the community. Do we have too many choices about how we can run data services in, or alongside our Kubernetes clusters? Should we run them within or just close by? We will introduce statefulset, operators, and data services outside of the cluster in this very hands-on workshop experience.