DoK Talks #75 Run production-grade Databases on Kubernetes using KubeDB // Tamal Saha

Abstract of the talk…

Kubernetes has emerged as the de-facto way to deploy modern containerized apps on cloud or on-premises. Despite all that growth on the application layer, it remains challenging to run a database in a distributed environment like Kubernetes. However, many developers want to treat data infrastructure the same as application stacks. Operators want to use the same tools for databases and applications and get the same benefits as the application layer in the data layer: rapid spin-up and repeatability across environments. This is where KubeDB by AppsCode comes as a solution. KubeDB by AppsCode is a production-grade cloud-native database management solution for Kubernetes. KubeDB simplifies and automates routine database tasks such as provisioning, patching, backup, recovery, failure detection, and repair for various popular databases on private and public clouds.

Bio…

Tamal Saha is the Founder/CEO of AppsCode. Tamal was born and raised in Bangladesh. He completed his BSc in CSE from the top engineering school in Bangladesh. He came to the USA as a Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia in 2009. After finishing MSc, he dropped out of the PhD program and spent the next 5 years building core infrastructure software that powers Amazon retail and Google Ads business. While at Google in 2015, he became an early adopter and contributor to Kubernetes. Since he has developed well known projects in the Kubernetes space like KubeDB, Stash, Kubeform, KubeVault, Voyager, etc.

Key take-aways from the talk…

- Kubernetes is a viable platform for running production-grade databases. - Helm charts are not enough for Day 2 life cycle management of databases. - Users really need an operator based solution for running databases in Kubernetes.