Stateful Apps On Kubernetes - Bring Them On! - Diana Patton & Gunna Marripudi, NetApp; Scott Surovich, HSBC Bank, USA; Scott Miller, DreamWorks Animation; Lisa

Worried about brining stateful applications onto your Kubernetes clusters? Learn from the Kubernetes experts at DreamWorks, HSBC and NetApp how you can build and operate at scale. In this session, panel members from DreamWorks, HSBC and NetApp will share their experiences from running data rich stateful applications on Kubernetes for years. The panel discussion will cover the following topics and others as related to data management and protection in Kubernetes. (1) Addressing challenges in managing ‘state’ in stateful application. (2) Use of different tools and capabilities Kubernetes ecosystem has delivered. (3) Best practices to optimize storage resource utilization. (4) Future needs of their expanding Kubernetes environments in hybrid-cloud/multi-cloud.