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Platform & DevOps·The orchestrator's model of the world

the replicas are named zero, one and two rather than randomly, and each one gets its own disk back after a restart.

StatefulSet

Also calledstateful set, ordinal workload

A workload type giving each replica a stable identity, a stable network name and its own persistent volume, and rolling them in order. It exists for software that cares which member it is — databases, brokers, consensus systems — where interchangeable replicas would be wrong. It is markedly harder to operate than a stateless deployment, which is the usual argument for running data stores as a managed service instead.

Commonly confused with