Beyond Statefulset: Containerizing Enterprise Stateful Applications in Practice

Explore advanced techniques for containerizing enterprise stateful applications in this conference talk. Learn how to overcome the limitations of Kubernetes StatefulSet for managing complex stateful services like Zookeeper and message queues. Discover OpenKruise's stateful features, including in-place resource and volume resizing, progressive ConfigMap and Secret hot updates, and container operation channels. Gain insights from Alibaba and Xiaohongshu teams on building operators and platforms for general stateful apps, as well as containerizing databases and middleware at scale. Understand the challenges and solutions for implementing leader election, configuration hot loading, and daily database operations in a containerized environment.