Learn how to create a MySQL-as-a-Service solution using Kubernetes Operators that can run anywhere, avoiding cloud lock-in and reducing costs. Explore the key considerations for choosing Kubernetes as the backbone for a relational database service, and discover the process of setting up a MySQL-as-a-Service using open-source tools and Operators. Follow Platform9's journey of migrating production workloads from AWS RDS to their own MySQL Kubernetes service running on a private cloud. Gain insights into architecture design, challenges encountered, best practices, and open-source tools used, complete with code samples, to implement your own database service on Kubernetes. Understand the components, cluster architecture, and orchestration involved in creating a production-grade RDS-like service on your infrastructure, whether on-premises or in the public cloud.