ELI5: Why is it not advisable to run databases in k8s?

• longhorn

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  Cloud-Native distributed storage built on and for Kubernetes

  

Just don't back Longhorn with XFS volumes.

• postgres-operator

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  Production PostgreSQL for Kubernetes, from high availability Postgres clusters to full-scale database-as-a-service. (by CrunchyData)

  

Then you have to consider the operator itself. On paper those things sound like the reborn saviour and i agree that they solve a lot of problems for you. Until you run into some edge case like https://github.com/CrunchyData/postgres-operator/issues/2615 . And sure enough you can work around that by adding a 1:1 copy of your production cluster to run testsuits on and/or buy the professional support. Yeah it was fixed 3 weeks later, but now you have to roll this new version out across your environments, testing everything again.

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