Transparent Live Migration of Services Between Kubernetes Clusters

Explore the intricacies of transparently migrating distributed databases between Kubernetes clusters in this 30-minute conference talk by Adam Janikowski and Jörg Schad from ArangoDB. Delve into the challenges and solutions for operating ArangoDB, a distributed Graph database, across multiple cloud providers and regions. Learn how Kube-Arango, the open-source operator for ArangoDB, enables live migration of distributed stateful applications without impacting user workloads. Discover insights on overcoming networking, DNS, and persistent data challenges during migrations between Kubernetes clusters, datacenters, or even cloud providers. Gain valuable knowledge on maintaining highly available database clusters in dynamic infrastructure environments, including strategies for handling outages, Kubernetes upgrades, resource considerations, and cost optimizations.