DoK Talks #142 - Kubernetes Cluster Upgrade Strategies and Data: Best Practices for your Stateful Workload // Peter Schuurman

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ABSTRACT OF THE TALK

How do you make sure your Stateful Workloads remain available when your Kubernetes infrastructure updates? This talk will discuss different strategies of upgrading a Kubernetes cluster, and how you can manage risk for your workload. The talk will showcase demos of each upgrade strategy.

BIO

Peter is a Senior Software Engineer on GKE at Google. He works on improving Kubernetes for Stateful workloads. His main focus is on enhancing the Kubernetes ecosystem for high availability applications.

KEY TAKE-AWAYS FROM THE TALK

The mechanics of different upgrade strategies, when to apply a particular upgrade strategy depending on your Stateful workload and how to mitigate risk to your application’s availability.