Running databases on Kubernetes can be easy - meet OpenEverest!

Running databases on Kubernetes is challenging. Choosing Kubernetes to run your workloads has a lot of advantages: it gives you flexibility, and there are plenty of different solutions on the market that can be a part of your perfect technology stack. The real challenge is to build a solid, reliable foundation that will be possible to maintain without causing a headache for your platform team. With databases, it’s even more important to use proven in battle technology, as no one wants to see their data unavailable and their application down.

To reduce complexity for database workloads, operators were invented. You can handle the day two operations much more easily than setting up everything by yourself; still, there are different solutions available. To address this challenge, another idea has been born: OpenEverest is a fully open source solution recently donated to CNCF. By running literally three commands, you can set up a tool that allows you to manage different databases and database-related technologies from a unified GUI. You don’t have to worry additionally about backups, monitoring, etc., everything can be controlled from there.

During the presentation, you’ll learn how to use OpenEverest, how to reduce your daily operations, setup your own DBaaS platform, everything available as a 100% open source solution. Additionally, you can learn from case studies how different companies solve their problems with OpenEverest.