2025-06-16 –, Frannz Salon
Running open source databases on Kubernetes? Learn best practices for high availability, security, backups, and disaster recovery. Discover key pitfalls to avoid and see how Operators simplify database management for MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL in Kubernetes environments.
So you’re looking to run your Open Source Database on Kubernetes. What best practices should you follow and what pitfalls should you avoid ? In this presentation we will look at how to run stateful applications on Kubernetes overall as well as what is particularly important for databases - we will cover high availability, security, backups and disaster recovery. Finally we will show how these practices can be implemented with Percona Operators for MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL - one of the leading solutions to run Open Source Databases on Kubernetes
Data Science, Scale, Operations
Level:Intermediate
Peter Zaitsev is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Percona, Coroot, FerretDB and other tech companies. As one of the leading experts in Open Source strategy and database optimization, Peter has applied his technical knowledge and entrepreneurial drive to contribute as a board member and advisor to several open source startups. Additionally, Peter is the co-author of the book "High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backup and Replication," one of the most popular books on MySQL performance.