# The Business Executive's Guide to Kubernetes

DevFeed: [The Business Executive's Guide to Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-business-executive-s-guide-to-kubernetes-35203.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/the-business-executives-guide-to-kubernetes/>)

Published: 2019-07-23T15:09:26Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Jessie Frazelle](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/jessie-frazelle.md>)

Topics: [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Replication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/replication.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dashboards.md>)

Tags: [challenges](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/challenges.md>), [control-plane](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/control-plane.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>)

## AI overview

This opinion article explains Kubernetes considerations for business leaders, focusing on challenges with stateful data and the need for separate data-replication mechanisms. It also warns that organizations may expose or fail to secure the Kubernetes control-plane dashboard.

## Source excerpt

Hello! I thought it would be fun to write a post aimed towards business leaders making technology decisions for their organizations. There is a lot of hype in our field and little truth behind the hype. Like most things I write about, this started from an idea I had on Twitter: has anyone ever done technical breakdowns of these products in Gartner reports that are actually just trash, is this something you'd read..? -- jessie frazelle 👩🏼🚀 (@jessfraz) July 24, 2019 This post will cover some hard truths of Kubernetes and what it means for your organization and business. You might have heard the term "Kubernetes" and you might have been led to believe that this will solve all the infrastructure pain for your organization. There is some truth to that, which will not be the focus of this post. To get to the state of enlightenment with Kubernetes, you need to first go through some hard challenges. Let's dive in to some of these hard truths. Stateful Data is Hard Kubernetes is not to be used for stateful data. There has been a lot of work done in this area but it is still not sufficent. For the more technical members of our audience I direct you to exhibit A. The linked issue goes over problems when a "StatefulSet" gets into an error during deploying or upgrading. This can lead to data loss or corruption since Kubernetes will need manual intervention to fix the state of the deployment. This could even lead to the point where the only recommended fix is you delete the state. What does this mean for your business? Well, if you lose or corrupt your data it could mean a lot of different things depending on what the data was. If the data was your customer database of new account signups, well you might have just lost the data for your new customers. If you are an ecommerce site, it might have been your latest sale. If you are in banking or investments, it might have been data accounting for the movement of capital. Databases holding valuable information like the examples above