Lessons from KubeCon EU: storage for K8S is an opportunity, not (just) a problem to fix.
Storage for Kubernetes — not a problem, an opportunity
Last week’s KubeCon was special for everyone who has been working on OpenEBS and related software for the last few years. By contributing OpenEBS to the CNCF and being embraced by various speakers at KubeCon, we seem to have broken through into the consciousness of many thousands of Kubernetes users — all of whom at one point seemed to be queuing up to chat with us (or to grab a sticker of the Mule visiting Sagra Familia).
Tweets like this one — thank you Priyanka! — led to a lot of great conversations at and around the booth.
Many if not most of the conversations were with existing users of OpenEBS who were happy and just wanted to stop by, meet us in person, and perhaps learn about 0.9 and the recently added support for LocalPV and the forthcoming high performance storage engine, on premise deployments of MayaOnline or whatever. A good amount of buzz about KubeMove as well — more on that below.
A special thanks to those engineers who stopped by from various car companies and for example reported that OpenEBS is now a preferred solution under a number of Kafka pipelines and even in the on-line configurator for a public facing web site. Not all the state of this configurator (where you design your own car) is being handled by Kubernetes, but some of it is and they want to put all of it on Kubernetes itself as opposed to being on external systems only connected via API or otherwise. As their usage points out — APIs check the box for connectivity however these and countless other users of Container Attached Storage from OpenEBS and our proprietary friends show that there is something more going on here. These users are not stopping at the API level — whether CSI at the storage layer or via Kafka or some other layer of connectivity at the DB and data layers. Instead they are embracing Kubernetes itself as a substrate for storage and data management.
Well — why is that? And how is it that after many years of effort OpenEBS has become…
Read the complete article in MayaData’s Blog
