Beyond the DBaaS Trap: Achieving Data Sovereignty With Kubernetes and CloudnativePG

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Claim: run PostgreSQL on Kubernetes with CloudNativePG to escape DBaaS lock‑in and achieve operational sovereignty. Uses Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Prometheus/OpenTelemetry and native logical replication to perform a blue‑green migration that moves even a 10 terabyte database with minutes of downtime. Implements an open, portable stack plus observability so production workloads can be lifted between hyperscalers and bare metal without rearchitecting, and the migration is rehearsable in a safety zone to remove risk.

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1. 0:00Data sovereignty intro
2. 4:59Sovereign mindset
3. 11:04Lock-in with proprietary DBs
4. 16:47Cloud-neutral PostgreSQL stack
5. 21:27Blue-green migration
6. 23:33Operational sovereignty 2026

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