Stateful workloads like databases, message brokers, and distributed systems require persistent storage, ordered deployment, and scaling. To achieve this, they must maintain state across pod restarts and have a unique identity. In a containerized environment, you need storage solutions to manage the persistent data of these applications. Kubernetes Persistent Volumes can help store such data that needs to be retained regardless of the pod lifecycle.

In this talk, we will dive deep into Kubernetes storage solutions, explore the types of storage, understand the major components of storage architecture, and learn some of the best practices. For practical insight, we will deploy a stateful application on a Kubernetes cluster and understand how we can enable data persistence.