In this storage-focused discussion The New Stack had during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017 was held with {code} Open Source Software Engineer Vladimir Vivien and Mike Rubin, Director of Engineering at Google Container Engine & Kubernetes, touched on on bringing universal, vendor-agnostic storage to Kubernetes with gRPC, the CSI standard, and what’s new with storage in Kubernetes 1.9 and CSI.

Vivien went on to note has been hard at work on the CSI implementation that released inside Kubernetes 1.9.



“Anyone who wants to write their own volume driver for Kubernetes will be able to do so using the CSI interface," said Vivien.

Rubin also noted that this is particularly exciting for vendors, with CSI enabling out of tree storage, with an easy to understand interface. 

This allows for storage solutions to work with Kubernetes, and boosts opportunity for working with distributed architectures and consuming storage while decreasing Kubernetes overall complexity.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/mEgv3pSyYMM

In this storage-focused discussion The New Stack had during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017 was held with {code} Open Source Software Engineer Vladimir Vivien and Mike Rubin, Director of Engineering at Google Container Engine & Kubernetes, touched on on bringing universal, vendor-agnostic storage to Kubernetes with gRPC, the CSI standard, and what’s new with storage in Kubernetes 1.9 and CSI.

Vivien went on to note has been hard at work on the CSI implementation that released inside Kubernetes 1.9.



“Anyone who wants to write their own volume driver for Kubernetes will be able to do so using the CSI interface," said Vivien.

Rubin also noted that this is particularly exciting for vendors, with CSI enabling out of tree storage, with an easy to understand interface. 

This allows for storage solutions to work with Kubernetes, and boosts opportunity for working with distributed architectures and consuming storage while decreasing Kubernetes overall complexity.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/mEgv3pSyYMM

Between breaking down storage as it relates to data storage and persistent data, The New Stack Founder Alex Williams got an update on the Kubernetes storage SIG's progress, with later discussion focused on how to best bring vendor-agnostic storage to Kubernetes.

We also included highlights from the new book Cloud Native Infrastructure: Patterns for Scalable Infrastructure and Applications in a Dynamic Environment by Justin Garrison and Kris Nova. When asked why they wrote it, the pair were quick to offer the following reasoning:

"I think as far as the audience goes, for me personally, I really wanted to give infrastructure engineer an opportunity to swing with the application engineers," said Nova. "For me it was about giving back to the community and giving back," added Garrison.

"Software's not easy, and to be able to capture these patterns to see how the pioneers are doing things is great." noted Kitson.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/sffqqRruACk

Between breaking down storage as it relates to data storage and persistent data, The New Stack Founder Alex Williams got an update on the Kubernetes storage SIG's progress, with later discussion focused on how to best bring vendor-agnostic storage to Kubernetes.

We also included highlights from the new book Cloud Native Infrastructure: Patterns for Scalable Infrastructure and Applications in a Dynamic Environment by Justin Garrison and Kris Nova. When asked why they wrote it, the pair were quick to offer the following reasoning:

"I think as far as the audience goes, for me personally, I really wanted to give infrastructure engineer an opportunity to swing with the application engineers," said Nova. "For me it was about giving back to the community and giving back," added Garrison.

"Software's not easy, and to be able to capture these patterns to see how the pioneers are doing things is great." noted Kitson.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/sffqqRruACk

Between breaking down storage as it relates to data storage and persistent data, The New Stack Founder Alex Williams got an update on the Kubernetes storage SIG's progress, with later discussion focused on how to best bring vendor-agnostic storage to Kubernetes.

We also included highlights from the new book Cloud Native Infrastructure: Patterns for Scalable Infrastructure and Applications in a Dynamic Environment by Justin Garrison and Kris Nova. When asked why they wrote it, the pair were quick to offer the following reasoning:

"I think as far as the audience goes, for me personally, I really wanted to give infrastructure engineer an opportunity to swing with the application engineers," said Nova. "For me it was about giving back to the community and giving back," added Garrison.

"Software's not easy, and to be able to capture these patterns to see how the pioneers are doing things is great." noted Kitson.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/sffqqRruACk

Between breaking down storage as it relates to data storage and persistent data, The New Stack Founder Alex Williams got an update on the Kubernetes storage SIG's progress, with later discussion focused on how to best bring vendor-agnostic storage to Kubernetes.

We also included highlights from the new book Cloud Native Infrastructure: Patterns for Scalable Infrastructure and Applications in a Dynamic Environment by Justin Garrison and Kris Nova. When asked why they wrote it, the pair were quick to offer the following reasoning:

"I think as far as the audience goes, for me personally, I really wanted to give infrastructure engineer an opportunity to swing with the application engineers," said Nova. "For me it was about giving back to the community and giving back," added Garrison.

"Software's not easy, and to be able to capture these patterns to see how the pioneers are doing things is great." noted Kitson.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/sffqqRruACk

At the 2017 KubeCon + CloudNative Con conference, several project launches were announced reaching the valued 1.0 status, including FluentD, Prometheus, and LinkerD.  Ihor Dvoretskyi, Developer Advocate at CNCF, Sarah Novotny, Head of Open Source strategy for GCP Google, and Michelle Noorali, senior engineer at Mircrosoft, co-lead for the KubeCon and CNCF, join Alex Williams to discuss what it takes to get a project to that coveted status, what the newly elected CNCF governance board is working on, and what the future might hold.

"We would like long term, committed contributors. We are working on building a mentoring program. So we're looking at growing the people that are coming to Kubernetes, but we're not necessarily optimising for people just coming in and trying things out," said Novotny.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4RvNdqxl__U

At the 2017 KubeCon + CloudNative Con conference, several project launches were announced reaching the valued 1.0 status, including FluentD, Prometheus, and LinkerD.  Ihor Dvoretskyi, Developer Advocate at CNCF, Sarah Novotny, Head of Open Source strategy for GCP Google, and Michelle Noorali, senior engineer at Mircrosoft, co-lead for the KubeCon and CNCF, join Alex Williams to discuss what it takes to get a project to that coveted status, what the newly elected CNCF governance board is working on, and what the future might hold.

"We would like long term, committed contributors. We are working on building a mentoring program. So we're looking at growing the people that are coming to Kubernetes, but we're not necessarily optimising for people just coming in and trying things out," said Novotny.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4RvNdqxl__U

At the 2017 KubeCon + CloudNative Con conference, several project launches were announced reaching the valued 1.0 status, including FluentD, Prometheus, and LinkerD.  Ihor Dvoretskyi, Developer Advocate at CNCF, Sarah Novotny, Head of Open Source strategy for GCP Google, and Michelle Noorali, senior engineer at Mircrosoft, co-lead for the KubeCon and CNCF, join Alex Williams to discuss what it takes to get a project to that coveted status, what the newly elected CNCF governance board is working on, and what the future might hold.

"We would like long term, committed contributors. We are working on building a mentoring program. So we're looking at growing the people that are coming to Kubernetes, but we're not necessarily optimising for people just coming in and trying things out," said Novotny.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4RvNdqxl__U

At the 2017 KubeCon + CloudNative Con conference, several project launches were announced reaching the valued 1.0 status, including FluentD, Prometheus, and LinkerD.  Ihor Dvoretskyi, Developer Advocate at CNCF, Sarah Novotny, Head of Open Source strategy for GCP Google, and Michelle Noorali, senior engineer at Mircrosoft, co-lead for the KubeCon and CNCF, join Alex Williams to discuss what it takes to get a project to that coveted status, what the newly elected CNCF governance board is working on, and what the future might hold.

"We would like long term, committed contributors. We are working on building a mentoring program. So we're looking at growing the people that are coming to Kubernetes, but we're not necessarily optimising for people just coming in and trying things out," said Novotny.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4RvNdqxl__U