importantSYS.SOURCE: Onat Mercan’s Blog• 2026-07-16T11:58:09Z
Building a Home-Based Database Cloning System Using Ceph and Kubernetes
The article describes Homescale, a system for creating writable database instances and point-in-time branches using copy-on-write (COW) clones with Ceph RBD, separating storage from compute for efficient database management. It outlines an architecture leveraging Kubernetes and Ceph to enable database cloning without full data copies, focusing on immutable snapshots and shared storage layers.
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