CSI: Storage, with Saad Ali

More gripping than a crime scene in Las Vegas, the Container Storage Interface (CSI) lets vendors interface with Kubernetes. Saad Ali from Google led development of Kubernetes storage, including the CSI and volume subsystem. He joins hosts Adam and Craig for an in-depth look at how storage works in Kubernetes.

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Chatter of the week

• Adam’s puzzle
• How they made The Mandalorian
  • Unreal Engine: Project Spotlight
• Fraggle Rock: Rock On!
• Lockdown music videos:
  • Crowded House: Something So Strong
  • Mostar Diving Club: Quiet Hands

News of the week

• IBM Cloud Satellite
• Google Cloud Buildpacks
• Anthos for app modernisation via CI/CD and transforming legacy Java applications
• Azure Container Registry adds dedicated data endpoints
• Amazon ECR: multi-architecture containers
• Amazon Cloudwatch adds Prometheus metrics
• run:AI creates fractional GPU sharing for Kubernetes
• The State of Cloud Native Development: CNCF survey (PDF)
• VMware’s State of Kubernetes 2020 (PDF)
• Gatekeeper Policy Management from SIGHUP
  • Episode 101, with Tim Hinrichs and Torin Sandall
• Datastax Astra on GCP and Sam Ramji’s blog
  • Episode 98 with Sam Ramji
• Introducing PodTopologySpread by Aldo Culquicondor and Wei Huang
• Pod Security Policies at Square by Jason Price
• Introduction to OpenTelemetry by Ran Ribenzaft
  • Episode 97, with Yuri Shkuro
• Kubernetes and Istio on the F-16 jet: CNCF case study
• GKE logging introduction by Charles Baer and Xiang Shen
• Helm and Kustomize, better together
  • Helm, with Matt Butcher
  • Kustomize, with Phillip Wittrock

Links from the interview

• SIG Storage
• KubeCon keynote: Debunking the Myth: Kubernetes Storage is Hard
• Episode 41 with Tim Hockin
• Docker: Volumes
• Volumes
• Persistent Volumes
• In-tree volume plugins (deprecated)
• FlexVolume
• Container Storage Interface
• Kubernetes CSI docs
  • Design doc
• CSI GA announcement
• CSI sidecar containers
• Ephemeral CSI volumes (Beta)
• Secrets Store CSI driver
• Local persistent volumes
• Data populators KEP
• CSI topology
• Topology-aware volume provisioning
• CSI for Persistent Memory
• GKE on AWS
• CSI TV theme songs
• The Who: Substitute
• Saad Ali on Twitter