Kubernetes has become a standard for managing stateless workloads with agility, elasticity, and resilience, but the challenge remains for stateful databases. CockroachDB addresses this by combining the reliability of traditional SQL databases with cloud-native scalability. It is a distributed SQL database that provides full ACID compliance, horizontal scalability, and automatic data sharding, replication, and rebalancing. This makes it particularly compatible with Kubernetes, aligning with its core principles of resiliency, scalability, and self-healing. CockroachDB can be deployed across various environments, including on-premises and cloud platforms, and supports automation through Kubernetes Operators. It effectively manages the challenges associated with stateful workloads on Kubernetes by ensuring strong consistency and resilience even during node failures or scaling events. Ultimately, CockroachDB makes stateful workloads as flexible and reliable as stateless services, leveraging Kubernetes' capabilities to maintain high availability and performance.