Best Practices for Running Databases on Kubernetes

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Session Abstract

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.

Session Description

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

Frannz Salon
16.Jun 2025
15:20pm - 16:00pm
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