In todays episode of KubernetesBytes, hosts Ryan Wallner and Bhavin Shah discuss the basic of running distributed databases like Apache Cassandra and Kafka along with Mongo, CockroachDB and others on Kubernetes. There are various capabilities of Kubernetes that were designed for these types of data services and this podcast should help you get a basic understanding of the landscape as well as WHY you may want to run them on Kubernetes.
Show Links:

https://thenewstack.io/new-tools-for-optimizing-data-resilience-in-kubernetes/
https://awesome-kubernetes.readthedocs.io/ / https://nubenetes.com/
https://www.containiq.com/post/should-you-run-a-database-on-kubernetes
Log4j recap - https://blog.aquasec.com/log4j-vulnerabilities-overview
IPv6 support for EKS - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-elastic-kubernetes-service-adds-ipv6-networking/
https://thenewstack.io/testkube-a-new-approach-to-cloud-native-testing/
GigaOM DP report 2 https://gigaom.com/report/gigaom-radar-for-kubernetes-data-protection-2/
https://portworx.com/blog/kubernetes-failover-mongodb/
https://thenewstack.io/the-perfect-pair-kubernetes-and-distributed-sql/
https://www.purestorage.com/docs.html?item=/type/pdf/subtype/doc/path/content/dam/pdf/en/white-papers/wp-kafka-on-kubernetes-with-portworx.pdf
https://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra-oss/3.0/cassandra/dml/dmlAboutDataConsistency.html
https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/ba-multi-data-center-cassandra-cluster-kubernetes-platform/
https://thenewstack.io/the-perfect-pair-kubernetes-and-distributed-sql/
https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/statefulset/