StatefulSets are intended to be used with stateful applications and distributed systems. However, the administration of stateful applications and distributed systems on Kubernetes is a broad, complex topic. In order to demonstrate the basic features of a StatefulSet, and not to conflate the former topic with the latter, you will deploy a simple web application using a StatefulSet.

After reading the official guide, you will be familiar with the following:

• How to create a StatefulSet
• How a StatefulSet manages its Pods
• How to delete a StatefulSet
• How to scale a StatefulSet
• How to update a StatefulSet's Pods