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Kubernetes from the Database Out

Event: PGConf NYC 2025

Location: New York

Dates: 29 September 2025 – 1 October 2025

Presentation: 30 September 2025

Link: On event website

Speaker: Alastair Turner

You already know your Postgres, but you’re being asked to work with this Kubernetes thing. Do you want to focus your Kubernetes learning on only the bits which are relevant to databases? Then this is the talk for you! Skip the usual ‘why run databases on Kubernetes’ discussion and dive straight into what you need to know to talk Postgres on Kubernetes.

Using a Postgres database hosted on Kubernetes as an example, I will cover the components of Kubernetes involved in day-to-day activities - including network connectivity, storage, and the automation of restarts and upgrades.

Join me for an overview of the few, core terms and concepts among the many, many pieces of the Kubernetes ecosystem you need to learn about first, to start your Data on Kubernetes journey.

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Kubernetes from the Database Out

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Alastair Turner

Alastair Turner

Since 1995, Alastair has administered, programmed and supported all things database, from Access to Universe, settling on Postgres around 2002. His particular area of interest is integration between open source software, how open source communities can work together and what they can learn from each other.

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