Leveraging Running Stateful Workloads on Kubernetes for the Benefit of Developers (DoK Day EU 2022) // Arsh Sharma, Lapo Elisacci & Ramiro Berrelleza

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From the DoK Day EU 2022 (https://youtu.be/Xi-h4XNd5tE)

Kubernetes comes with a lot of useful features like Volumes and StatefulSets, which make running stateful workloads simple. Interestingly, when combined with the right tools, these features can make Kubernetes very valuable for developers wanting to run massive production databases in development! This is exactly what was seen at "Extendi".

The developers at Extendi deal with a large amount of data in their production Kubernetes clusters. But when developing locally, they didn't have an easy way of replicating this data. This replication was needed because it allowed developers to test new features instantaneously without worrying if they would work as expected when pushed to production. But replicating a 100Gb+ production database for development wasn't turning out to be an easy task!

This is where leveraging Kubernetes + remote development environments came to the rescue. Running data on Kubernetes turned out to be way faster than any of the traditional approaches because of Kubernetes' ability to handle stateful workloads exceptionally well. And since Extendi already used Kubernetes in production - the setup process was fairly simple.

This talk will cover practical steps on how leveraging Kubernetes based development environments allowed dev teams at Extendi to run production data on Kubernetes during development using features like Volume Snapshots, having a huge positive impact on developer productivity.

Arsh is a Developer Experience Engineer at Okteto. He is an active contributor to the upstream Kubernetes project and was awarded the Kubernetes Contributor Award for his contributions in 2021. Arsh has written blogs and spoken about different topics in the cloud-native ecosystem at various conferences before, including KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2021. He has also been on the Kubernetes Release Team since the 1.23 release. He also serves as the New Contributor Ambassador for the Documentation Special Interest Group of the Kubernetes project and continuously mentors new folks in the community. Previously, he worked at VMware and was an active contributor to other CNCF projects, including cert-manager and Kyverno.

Lapo is a Software Engineer currently leading the development team of a Social Listening and Audience Intelligence platform. He started coding at the early age of 14 and since he turned his passion into a real job, he has always been looking for boosting his knowledge by constantly researching for newer and newer technologies. Active on Ruby Open Source projects

Ramiro Berrelleza is one of the founders of Okteto. He has spent most of his career (and his free time) building cloud services and developer tools. Before starting Okteto, Ramiro was an Architect at Atlassian and a Software Engineer at Microsoft Azure. Originally from Mexico, he currently lives in San Francisco.