Agree on storage being the hard part. You either need a robust SAN to store persistent volumes or you need to store persistent volumes on the local storage of k

Agree on storage being the hard part. You either need a robust SAN to store persistent volumes or you need to store persistent volumes on the local storage of kubelets which is a major pain. Once a pod binds a local pvc to a kubelet that pod must now run on that kubelet for the rest of eternity. If you want to get rid of a kubelet with a local pvc you either need the application be durable to data loss (which many are not) or you need to implement some sort of stateful pod draining logic. When rolling your own, I think you need to invest in a battle tested SAN or just not do stateful on k8s. For the handful of stateful services I have run on k8s it would have been better to just use a managed stateful solution.