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it keeps the ordering of pods in your deployment so that it can accommodate a leader/worker architecture
example provided by RabbitMQ’s documentation: https://github.com/rabbitmq/diy-kubernetes-examples/blob/master/gke/statefulset.yaml
Another option they recommend is to move your stateful applications into cloud managed services
Redis is supported by AWS Elasticache, Azure Cache & GCP MemoryStore
RabbitMQ supported by Amazon MQ, not sure if Azure or GCP support this
AWS Elasticsearch service (but adds complexity as every request will have to be signed)
Elastic on Azure, but not sure how it works
Helm
Helm is a plugin (similar to homebrew, yum) and repository for kubernetes which hosts k8 “packages” and …
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