#1 DoK community: Is k8s even ready for data? // Patrick McFadin

Our kick-off inaugural event of Data on Kuberneters commenced with VP Developer Relations of Datastax Patrick McFadin talking about this vision for the future of doing data on k8s

Kubernetes has been a great solution for deploying application infrastructure. Trying to manage your data with the same control plane has been, less than ideal. This has been even more true when using distributed databases like Apache Cassandra. Once you get past the storage and stateful sets, you still have a lot to do. Let’s have a frank talk about the new opportunities to make Kubernetes ready for data.

Patrick McFadin is the VP of Developer Relations at DataStax, where he leads a team devoted to making users of Apache Cassandra successful. He has also worked as Chief Evangelist for Apache Cassandra and consultant for DataStax, where he helped build some of the largest and exciting deployments in production. Patrick is active in the Apache Cassandra project and a member of the CNCF TOC.

The new data on k8s community (DOKC) is an openly governed and self-organizing group of curious and experienced operators and engineers concerned with running data-intensive workloads on Kubernetes. We will have weekly meetups on Tuesdays at 5pm UK / 9am PST and everything will be recorded and put up on youtube and podcast land.

I am currently looking for speakers who can talk about things such as operators, databases, multicloud/hybrid, or anything else that could be interesting for the SRE engineering crowd.

Join our slack: https://join.slack.com/t/dokcommunity/shared_invite/zt-g3ui5r0g-jDKz5dhh2W1ayElqwKYYAg
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Connect with Patrick on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-mcfadin-53a8046/

This meetup is sponsored by MayaData, which helped start the DOK.community and remains an active supporter. MayaData sponsors two Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects, OpenEBS - the leading open-source container attached storage solution - and Litmus - the leading Kubernetes native chaos engineering project, which was recently donated to the CNCF as a Sandbox project. As of June 2020, MayaData is the sixth-largest contributor to CNCF projects. Well-known users of MayaData products include the CNCF itself, Bloomberg, Comcast, Arista, Orange, Intuit, and others. Check out more info at https://mayadata.io/

Come learn about running Cassandra in their hands-on workshop: https://www.datastax.com/events/cassandra-workshop-series