How to Fail at Running Cassandra in Kubernetes
Veteran Cassandra admins bring powerful instincts from years of managing fleets of VMs, but those same instincts can torpedo a Kubernetes rollout. We’ll reenact the greatest hits of failure like the panic that sets in when you can’t just SSH to your nodes. Then we flip each misstep into a Kubernetes-native pattern. You’ll laugh, cringe, and leave with a checklist to audit your own deployment before it fails in production.
- Shift from VM-style node management to Kubernetes stateful primitives
- Spot and replace classic anti-patterns
- Protect quorum and uptime the Kubernetes-native way
Speakers

Patrick McFadin
Principal Technical Strategist & Cassandra Committer
DataStax