With data-intensive workloads, you can select from these options to best meet your organization's needs:

  • Fully-managed data solutions: Managed offerings like Cloud SQL, Memorystore, Dataproc, or Spanner are easier to maintain and operate, and can be a good choice if you don't require granular control.
  • Data app on Kubernetes: You can deploy and run your stateful applications on a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster, with all the benefits of managed Kubernetes including scalability, security, resilience, and cost effectiveness. You can use Kubernetes operators like those for Kafka and Redis to simplify your workload management.

Learn how running data workloads on Kubernetes helps lower costs and increase your organization's ROI. Read the Data on Kubernetes 2022 Report

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Deploy a Qdrant vector database to GKE

Deploy a Qdrant vector database cluster to GKE.

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Deploy PostgreSQL to GKE using CloudNativPG

Deploy PostgreSQL to GKE clusters using the CloudNativePG operator.

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Deploy PostgreSQL to GKE using Zalando

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Deploy Redis to GKE using Redis Enterprise

Deploy Redis to GKE clusters using the Redis Enterprise operator.

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Deploy Redis to GKE using Spotahome

Deploy Redis to GKE clusters using the Spotahome operator.

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Deploy Apache Kafka to GKE using Confluent

Deploy Apache Kafka to GKE clusters using the Confluent operator.

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Deploy Apache Kafka to GKE using Strimzi

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Deploy a containerized web app to a GKE Autopilot cluster, and use a Google Cloud Spanner database in the backend to store data.

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Deploy a stateful MySQL cluster on GKE

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Deploy a highly-available Kafka cluster on GKE

Deploy highly-available Kafka clusters on GKE to build streaming data pipelines.

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Connect to Cloud SQL from an Application in Kubernetes Engine

Connect an app in GKE to Cloud SQL using the Cloud SQL Proxy container.

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Deploy a Redis cluster on GKE

Learn how to create and deploy a highly-available Redis cluster.

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Using the Compute Engine persistent disk CSI Driver

Provision and connect to volumes backed by Compute Engine PDs.

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Connecting Cloud Spanner with GKE Autopilot

Learn to connect several backend services running on GKE Autopilot to a Cloud Spanner database, using Terraform and Workload Identity.

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Running a MongoDB Database in Kubernetes with StatefulSets

Learn to set up a MongoDB database with a StatefulSet.

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Run a Spark job on Dataproc on GKE

Create a Dataproc on GKE virtual cluster, then run a Spark job on the cluster.

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Deploy Memcached on GKE

Learn to deploy a cluster of distributed Memcached servers on GKE.

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El Carro drives change for Regnology

El Carro is an open-source Kubernetes operator for automating Oracle database management.

Oracle GKE

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Announcing Cloud Storage FUSE and GKE CSI driver for AI/ML workloads

Access AI/ML data stored in Google Cloud Storage in containers running on GKE using file semantics.

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Backup for GKE

Backup for GKE is a service for backing up and restoring workloads in GKE clusters.

Backup for GKE

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Scaling Microservices Applications: From Open Source to Redis Enterprise on Google Cloud

Transition from open source to enterprise-ready using Google Cloud and Redis.

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Connecting Google Kubernetes Engine to Cloud SQL using the Auth Proxy Operator

Simplify connecting connecting GKE to Cloud SQL.

Cloud SQL GKE

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Use MemoryStore for Redis as a game leaderboard

Learn how to to operate your own leaderboards in the cloud.

Gaming GKE MemoryStore for Redis

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Stateful PostgreSQL sample

Build and deploy a stateful PostgreSQL cluster using Kubernetes and Day 1 and 2 operations such as Monitoring with Cloud Monitor and disaster recovery with Backup for GKE.

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Stateful MySQL sample

Deploy a MySQL database instance on GKE with the necessary naming and configuration to create a MySQL InnoDB Cluster.

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Stateful Kafka sample

Build and deploy a stateful Kafka cluster using Kubernetes and Day 1 and 2 operations such as Monitoring with Cloud Monitor and disaster recovery with Backup for GKE.

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Stateful workload with Filestore sample

Create Deployments that read and write to the NFS (Network File System).

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