Challenges of Autoscaling Databases in Kubernetes

Summary On 18th May 2022, AppsCode held a webinar on Challenges of Autoscaling Databases in Kubernetes. The key contents of the webinar are: What is a stateful workload? Kubernetes StatefulSet and its features? Why auto-scaling? Advantages? Problem with database horizontal scaling How does KubeDB implement managed horizontal scaling? Challenges of auto-scaling databases using VPA How does KubeDB implement auto-scaling? Auto-scaling architecture. Live demonstration of MongoDB sharded cluster auto-scaling Description of the Webinar Earlier in the webinar, we discussed the stateful workloads.