This talk is about an ongoing journey from early yaml files to an advanced integration supporting scaling, upgrading and monitoring in a devops friendly way. ArangoDB is a scalable, distributed multi-model database. However, for this talk, it is not necessary to know what this means. Rather the only crucial facts are that it is distributed, it supports small to very large deployments and can be deployed in various environments. In recent months we’ve received many requests to support Kubernetes “out of the box”. This talk is about an ongoing journey from early yaml files to an advanced integration supporting scaling, upgrading, federation and monitoring in a devops friendly way. The journey will take us from tiny cloud environments to bespoke hardware, touching subjects such as persistency performance, session stickyness, access control and federation. Our journey has not reached its destination yet, but the destination looks promising and the journey so far has been an interesting one, that we will happily share with you.