A blog post by Saad Ali, senior software engineer at Google, drew considerable attention early year when Ali first described Kubernetes GA in “Container Storage Interface (CSI) for Kubernetes GA.  In that post, Ali described how “CSI was developed as a standard for exposing arbitrary block and file storage systems to containerized workloads on Container Orchestration Systems (COs) like Kubernetes.” Among other things, CSI protects backwards compatibility with protection by a Kubernetes deprecation policy, Ali wrote.

The implications of CSI, as well as Kubernetes storage and the evolution of containers, were the subject of a podcast episode of The New Stack Analyst hosted by Alex Williams, founder and editor-in-chief of The New Stack, with Janakiram MSV, a TNS correspondent and principal of Janakiram & Associates. Joining Ali as a guest was  Anand Babu "AB" Periasamy, co-founder and CEO at MinIO. The podcast was broadcast during DockerCon 2019, Docker's flagship user conference, which recently took place in San Francisco.