Feb 24 · 5 min read · We had a production application running on Amazon EKS as a StatefulSet.Each replica had its own PersistentVolumeClaim backed by Amazon EBS. During the initial launch phase, we deployed the workload on
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Feb 17 · 17 min read · 🔎 Key Differences Between Deployment and StatefulSet FeatureDeploymentStatefulSet Pod IdentityRandom pod names (no stable identity)Stable, predictable pod names (e.g., mysql-0) Persistent StorageNo guaranteed dedicated storageEach pod gets i...
Join discussionFeb 16 · 6 min read · In Kubernetes, not all workloads are the same. Stateless applications like APIs and frontend apps work perfectly with Deployments. But stateful applications like databases, Kafka, and Elasticsearch need something more powerful and predictable. That’s...
Join discussionFeb 13 · 3 min read · StatefulSet vs Deployment in Kubernetes: When to Use Which Kubernetes provides several objects to deploy applications, but StatefulSets and Deployments are the most common. Choosing the right one depends on whether your application is stateful or sta...
Join discussionFeb 12 · 8 min read · Why Traditional Volume Management Fails for Stateful Workloads Standard Kubernetes Deployments with manually created PVCs cannot guarantee stable storage identity across pod restarts. When a pod in a Deployment is rescheduled, it may bind to a differ...
Join discussionFeb 9 · 4 min read · StatefulSet in Kubernetes: Real-Time Database Deployment Guide In Kubernetes, applications are categorized as stateless and stateful. Based on this classification, Kubernetes provides different workload objects.For database applications, the most rel...
Join discussionJan 26 · 5 min read · Real-World Analogy: Stateless vs Stateful Let’s take a real-world example. A customer is having an issue with a package delivery, so he calls a live support agent. He explains the entire problem in detail. Unfortunately, the call gets disconnected du...
Join discussionJan 25 · 12 min read · Today, we will learn how to set up a backend API container with PostgreSQL on Kubernetes. In this tutorial, you will learn how to write a multi-stage Docker file, install the MetalLB load balancer, set up the Rancher local path provisioner for storag...
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Dec 30, 2025 · 8 min read · What is a StatefulSet and how it differs from a Deployment A StatefulSet in Kubernetes is a controller that manages the deployment and scaling of a set of Pods, and provides guarantees about the ordering and uniqueness of these Pods. It is used for s...
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Dec 16, 2025 · 3 min read · We’ve all been there: "It works on my machine!" But the jump from a local Docker environment to a Kubernetes cluster (like k3s) is where the real engineering begins. Recently, while deploying EduConnect🔗, a full-stack Node.js application which uses ...
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