The text discusses the challenges faced in migrating workloads to the cloud due to issues with data persistence and movement. It highlights the increasing interest in data infrastructure designed for maximum advantage of cloud computing benefits, such as scalability, elasticity, resiliency, observability, and automation. A key example is K8ssandra, which packages Apache Cassandra® and supporting tools into a production-ready Kubernetes deployment. The text explores the concept of cloud-native databases running on Kubernetes and how it can be achieved by adopting key elements of the Kubernetes design paradigm. It delves into various principles like resource provisioning, separation of control and data planes, adoption of custom resources and control loops, observability through logging, metrics, and tracing, secure networking, secrets management, and declarative approach to managing resources. The text also mentions the Data on Kubernetes Community, which has hosted numerous meetups and is co-sponsored by DataStax. It concludes with an invitation to join upcoming events like DoK Day Europe 2022 and Kubecon/CloudNativeCon Europe.