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A cloud-native database is one that achieves the goals of scalability, elasticity, resiliency, observability, and automation. Even longtime DevOps practitioners skeptical of running databases on Kubernetes are beginning to come around, and best practices are starting to emerge. To make databases the most “cloud-native” they can be, we need to embrace everything that KuberNETes has to offer, says Jeff Carpenter. In the K8ssandra project, K8sandra packages Apache Cassandra and supporting tools into a production-ready deployment.