[peterwwillis]

As an "enterprisey" person, I disagree. I've seen a lot of enterprise infrastructure that looks like toddlers built it out of lincoln logs. And I've seen SANs lose connectivity much more often than a pool of independent local disks all going bad at once. On top of that, databases run on VMs that aren't on hypervisors dedicated for running databases results in shitty adminning and overcrowded VM pools destroying database performance+reliability.

Cloud-ish infrastructure is often good for running distributed decentralized databases, but try running Oracle in a bunch of Docker containers on a crappy OpenStack cluster and soon you'll be crying into your scotch.

These efforts to make people think it's a good idea to run databases on K8s are misleading people, and god help those poor teams that waste years trying to stabilize something that a fancy web page and a youtube tutorial said was a great idea.