Running an Iceberg Lakehouse on Kubernetes
September 10, 2026Catalog, maintenance, and compaction as Kubernetes workloads: scheduling classes, job structure, credential flow, and the failures that come from the interaction.
Catalog, maintenance, and compaction as Kubernetes workloads: scheduling classes, job structure, credential flow, and the failures that come from the interaction.
A cost model for compaction, snapshot expiry, orphan cleanup, and manifest rewriting: what each operation spends, on which meter, and how to set a schedule.
Trace what one tiny Iceberg commit writes, then model hourly, per-minute, and per-second cadences so streaming costs become arithmetic, not adjectives.
Iceberg table maintenance commoditized when every platform started shipping it. What the six operations are, what they cost, and the observability you should keep even when the work is managed.