Dok Talks #123 - Can Data Become a Declarative Resource? // Roey Libfeld, Michael Greenberg & Uri Zaidenwerg

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ABSTRACT OF THE TALK

Most K8s users find stateful K8s deployments challenging, to say the least, when persistent data is involved the declarative, portable, self-healing nature that we are accustomed to in stateless deployments is replaced with complexity, resiliency issues and portability restrictions. While K8s is a standard, portable between environments, data is restricted to its physical location and its provider. In this session, we will review the challenges facing stateful K8s, and how to free data to enjoy the same level of portability as the application layer.

KEY TAKE-AWAYS FROM THE TALK

To assure stateful deployments enjoy the same declarative nature we came to love in stateless deployments, we the K8s users should adopt technologies that do not restrict data to a physical location or to a specific public cloud vendor, designing portable agnostic K8s apps should be