> You can develop a custom controller that does manage a typical RDBMS to be able to run in three datacenters across three continents. Honestly, at that point,

> You can develop a custom controller that does manage a typical RDBMS to be able to run in three datacenters across three continents. Honestly, at that point, what does k8s get you? AIUI, Kubernetes is fine for stateless systems, but it is really no better on the storing-state question.