Create Your Own MySQL-as-a-Service That Runs Anywhere Using Kubernetes Operators

Learn how to create a MySQL-as-a-Service solution using Kubernetes Operators that can run anywhere, avoiding cloud lock-in and reducing costs. Explore the key considerations for choosing Kubernetes as the backbone for a relational database service, and discover the process of setting up a MySQL-as-a-Service using open-source tools and Operators. Follow Platform9's journey of migrating production workloads from AWS RDS to their own MySQL Kubernetes service running on a private cloud. Gain insights into architecture design, challenges encountered, best practices, and open-source tools used, complete with code samples, to implement your own database service on Kubernetes. Understand the components, cluster architecture, and orchestration involved in creating a production-grade RDS-like service on your infrastructure, whether on-premises or in the public cloud.

Introduction
About Platform Line
Agenda
Background
What did you look for
Why not Kubernetes
Our Solution
Components
Cluster Architecture
Kubernetes Containers
Orchestrator
Problems with both approaches
Software stack issues
Future plans
Links
Questions