Databases on Kubernetes, Why Database-as-a-Service matters

Kubernetes Bytes

In this episode, Bhavin and Ryan interview Umair Mufti, the product owner of Portworx Data Services; the new database as a service for Kubernetes. They discuss Umair's experience at Dreamworks Animation creating a database as a service platform as well as why he felt is was necessary to build it and some of the lessons learned along the way.

Show links

• https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2019/01/11/why-is-storage-on-kubernetes-is-so-hard/
• https://www.dataversity.net/data-container-architecture-answers-and-challenges/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n_Jz4VO_Tg (Chris Adkins) Arc Enabled DS’s
• https://thenewstack.io/maintaining-data-resiliency-in-the-age-of-kubernetes/
• State of DevOps Report: https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/state-of-devops-2021.pdf
• https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/google-cloud-launches-backups-for-gke
• https://portworx.com/products/portworx-data-services/
• https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2021/09/28/announcing-vsan-7-update-3/