Building a consistent, scalable, distributed database is no easy task. Deploying a database as a service might be equally hard. When we chose a platform to deploy and run our CockroachCloud service, we chose Kubernetes and learned a lot along the way.  

• Why we chose Kubernetes and what went into the evaluation
• What are the biggest challenges to deploy anything “as a service”
• Best practices for securing multiple Kubernetes clusters
• Kubernetes difference across multiple cloud providers
• Running and managing multi-region database on Kubernetes