2026

EDB Summer Academy

 

Stateful on Kubernetes: Running Postgres the Right Way

Kubernetes promises to simplify how you deploy and manage stateless workloads. But databases aren't stateless services, and closing that gap takes more than dropping a container image into a cluster. This session covers the core concepts DBAs and DevOps teams need to bridge the gap.

We dig into the failure scenarios teams overlook, the trade-offs between self-managed and operator-managed approaches, and what it takes to build a Kubernetes-native Postgres setup you can actually trust in production.