Rook, with Jared Watts

Rook is a cloud native storage orchestrator and a controller for storage systems such as Ceph. Jared Watts has been working on Rook since the start, first at Quantum, and then at Upbound. He talks to Craig and Adam about storage, chess, and premium-rate telephone numbers.

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Chatter of the week

• Tabletop Simulator (a computer game)
• Happy (a televisual programme)

News of the week

• Kubernetes Day India from the CNCF
• Vertical Pod Autoscaling in GKE in Beta
  • Vertical Pod Autoscaler in OSS
• Announcing TriggerMesh Knative Lambda Runtime (KLR)
  • Episode 28 with Sebastien Goasguen
• krew, the package manager for kubectl plugins
• Monitoring Kubernetes, by Sean Porter of Sensu on the CNCF Blog
• Istio 1.1 update
  • Episode 15 with Jasmine Jaksic and Dan Ciruli
• Kubernetes authorization via Open Policy Agent by Stefan Bueringer

Links from the interview

• Symform; Jared’s first startup, peer-to-peer cloud storage
  • Totally unlike KaZaA
  • Where Jared first met open source, through the Mono project
  • Acquired by Quantum
    • Craig explicitly remembers owning a Quantum Bigfoot (though that one wasn’t his first hard drive)
• Rook, a cloud native storage orcestrator
  • SIG Storage and the Volume abstraction
  • Started with support for Ceph
  • Also now supports CockroachDB, Minio, NFS, Apache Cassandra
  • But not Gluster - for now at least
  • Added to the CNCF Sandbox in January 2018, and moved to incubating in August
• Upbound; founded by Bassam Tabbara
• Container Storage Interface 1.0.0
• Rook on GitHub
• Queen Storage
• Jared Watts on Twitter and the Rook blog
  • Why you might have had to pay 90c per minute to tweet Jared