Explore a comprehensive talk on deploying and managing the distributed database TiDB on Kubernetes. Learn about TiDB's architecture and ecosystem, and discover how it fits into cloud-native applications. Dive into Kubernetes as a standard platform and its powerful extensibility features. Understand how PingCAP manages state for TiDB using Kubernetes, including the use of local persistent volumes for SQL databases. Gain insights into the operator pattern for complex stateful applications like distributed databases. The presentation covers TiDB's architecture, cloud-native applications, Kubernetes features, state management, custom controllers, and scheduling stateful applications.