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Kubernetes is used by many container users to automate the scaling and workload balancing of container-based infrastructures. However, stateless and stateful applications have very different reactions to containers and Kubernetes, with stateful apps being not particularly well-suited to this type of rapid, automated infrastructure behavior.
Check out this IDC brief to learn more about the Operator model, which is particularly useful for complex stateful apps in Kubernetes.