The presentation discusses the challenges and solutions for cross-cluster migration of stateful workloads in Kubernetes using multi-cluster services and staple set slices.
- Multi-cluster services provide a way to uniquely identify replicas across clusters and discover endpoints.
- Staple set slices allow for granular control over replica ordinal and scaling in complementary fashion.
- Coordinating building blocks and migrating dependencies are necessary for cross-cluster migration.
- Challenges of cross-cluster migration include managing multiple Kubernetes control planes and client-side Quorum.
- Stateful workloads require unique solutions for cross-cluster migration.
- An anecdote is provided about the complexity of migrating a metrics datastore between Kubernetes clusters.