Solving K8s Stateful App Storage Pain: Production-Ready Longhorn + MySQL StatefulSet

This article dissects the challenges of running MySQL as a stateful workload on Kubernetes, explains why storage, consistency, and fail‑over are the real pain points, and provides a production‑grade solution that combines Longhorn distributed block storage with a carefully engineered MySQL 8.0 StatefulSet, complete with YAML manifests, performance tuning, backup strategies, and disaster‑recovery playbooks.

KubernetesLonghornStatefulSet

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Solving K8s Stateful App Storage Pain: Production-Ready Longhorn + MySQL StatefulSet

Linux Ops Smart Journey

Jun 6, 2025 · Operations

How to Build a Complete Longhorn Monitoring System with Prometheus & Grafana

This guide explains how to monitor Longhorn storage in Kubernetes by collecting metrics with Prometheus, configuring scraping, verifying data collection, and visualizing everything in Grafana, enabling proactive performance tuning and reliable operations.

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How to Build a Complete Longhorn Monitoring System with Prometheus & Grafana

Linux Ops Smart Journey

Jun 5, 2025 · Cloud Native

Secure Longhorn UI on Kubernetes: Add Basic Auth and Enable HTTPS

This guide walks you through securing the Longhorn UI in a Kubernetes environment by configuring basic authentication and enabling HTTPS via Ingress and cert‑manager, including prerequisite setup, secret creation, Helm upgrades, and verification steps to ensure production‑grade protection.

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Secure Longhorn UI on Kubernetes: Add Basic Auth and Enable HTTPS

Linux Ops Smart Journey

Jun 4, 2025 · Cloud Native

Deploy Longhorn on Kubernetes with Helm: Step‑by‑Step Guide

This article provides a comprehensive, hands‑on tutorial for deploying the open‑source Longhorn distributed block storage system on a Kubernetes cluster using Helm, covering prerequisites, Helm chart preparation, installation, validation, and PVC mounting to ensure reliable stateful workloads.

KubernetesLonghornPersistent Volumes

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Deploy Longhorn on Kubernetes with Helm: Step‑by‑Step Guide

DevOps Operations Practice

Jan 28, 2024 · Cloud Native

Five Open‑Source Storage Projects for Kubernetes

This article introduces five major open‑source storage solutions—OpenEBS, Rook, GlusterFS, Ceph, and LongHorn—explaining how each simplifies persistent data management for Kubernetes workloads while offering features such as replication, self‑healing, and multi‑node scalability.

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Five Open‑Source Storage Projects for Kubernetes

Ops Development Stories

Sep 28, 2021 · Operations

How to Resolve Longhorn PV Mount Failures with fsck and e2fsck Upgrade

After a Longhorn component crash caused PersistentVolume mount errors in Kubernetes, this guide walks through diagnosing the issue, upgrading e2fsck to handle newer filesystem features, running fsck to repair the volume, and finally recreating the pod to restore normal operation.

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How to Resolve Longhorn PV Mount Failures with fsck and e2fsck Upgrade