This is a joint talk with one of my Netflix Coworkers JS Jeannotte.

In this talk we survey the different options for running stateful workloads on EC2.

We also present a hybrid method of using containers to run workloads using Kubelet in standalone mode, combined with the EC2 replace-root-volume API. This method enables us to iterate quickly through:

1. Loading new container images and restarting kubelet for workload software upgrades
2. Rebooting the server into a new OS and kernel quickly for upgrading everything else

All without losing the on-disk state.