Name: Stateful Done Right: Treat your Database Like Cattle, not Pets
Start: 2026-11-09T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-11-09T16:00:00-05:00
Location: Le Méridien Salt Lake City Downtown in the Triumph Salon III

Register

Hands-on Workshop

Stateful Done Right: Treat your Database Like Cattle, not Pets

September

30

-

October

1

,

2025

Starting at

7:00pm

12:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Go from "why are databases on Kubernetes so hard?" to a production-grade, self-healing CockroachDB cluster you deploy, break, and watch recover, live.

Seats are limited: everybody gets help when something breaks.

What you'll walk out knowing

Your database should be cattle. Because CockroachDB is symmetric, every node equal with no primary to fail over, the GA Operator manages each node as a CrdbNode custom resource, not a StatefulSet. Any node can be replaced, rescheduled, or lost without ceremony. Here's what we cover, hands on the whole way.

Why stateful is the hard part

What "cattle, not pets" really means for a database, and why running one on Kubernetes has been painful.

No StatefulSets

How the GA Operator manages nodes as CrdbCluster and CrdbNode custom resources instead.

Deploy with the Operator

Stand up a cluster with the two-chart Helm model, connect, and explore it.

Scale Online

Grow the cluster while it runs and watch it rebalance automatically, no downtime.

Survive Failure

Kill pods, nodes, and whole zones, and watch the cluster heal itself in real time.

Day-2 Operations

Safe decommissioning, zero-downtime rolling upgrades, and observability.

Speakers

Who’s taking the stage

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Spencer Kimball

Co-Founder and CEO,

Cockroach Labs

Spencer Kimball

Co-Founder and CEO,

Cockroach Labs

Carl Löfgren

Engineering Manager,

SumUp

Rickard Öberg

Engineering Manager,

SumUp

Agenda

Three hours. Mostly your hands on the keyboard.

Led by Felipe Gutierrez and Nathan Zamecnik. Lunch and registration open at noon; the workshop runs 1:00–4:00.

12:00 pm

1

Lunch & registration

Grab food, get your environment set up, and settle in.

Location: Pre-function corridor outside the Triumph Salon III

1:00 pm

2

Welcome

Why databases are the hard part of Kubernetes, and what "cattle, not pets" means for yours.

Location: Triumph Salon III

1:15 pm

3

Why not StatefulSets, and the GA Operator

CrdbCluster and CrdbNode, explained.

Hands-on: install the Operator, deploy a 3-node cluster

2:00 pm

4

Deploy & scale with the Operator

The two-chart Helm model in practice.

Hands-on: connect, explore, scale the cluster online

2:45 pm

1

Break

3:00 pm

1

Resilience & Day-2

Survive pod, node, and zone failure; decommission safely; run zero-downtime rolling upgrades.

Hands-on: chaos, decommission & observability labs

3:50 pm

1

Wrap-up, Q&A, and next steps

Venue

Located just West of the Salt Palace Convention Center makes getting to the workshop a quick walk, ride share, or UTA Trax ride away.

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