In the inception of Kubernetes, a core design philosophy was Pods are "cattle" rather than "pets" where they can be easily replaced and replicated. As Kubernetes has dominated the world of computing, that design philosophy continually grows fuzzier. Today, application designers have many pet Pods that are difficult to schedule, start, and run, and they'd take the suggestion to "move" rather than tear down and replace.

In the Kubernetes Checkpoint/Restore working group, we're looking to canonically solve this problem. There has already been rudimentary checkpointing support, but we're looking to do more. Join Peter Hunt as they walk through what the WG has been working on, and learn about the state of the art of process migration at enterprise scale. And yes, it can be used for AI applications too.