Cassandra Myth Busters: How Hard Is It to Run Cassandra on Kubernetes?

Running stateful workloads like Cassandra on Kubernetes was once considered difficult, but recent innovations have made it possible to create a platform for modern cloud-native applications with stateful requirements. Key resources such as StatefulSets, PersistentVolumes, and StorageClasses provide the building blocks needed to host stateful applications within Kubernetes. The development of the Cass Operator and K8ssandra has further improved scalability, reliability, and ease of management for these applications. As a result, Cassandra can now be considered the default data tier for building and running powerful, resilient, truly cloud-native data apps on Kubernetes.