Rook - Intro and Ceph Deep Dive

Explore the world of cloud-native storage orchestration in this comprehensive conference talk on Rook and Ceph. Gain insights into the Rook project, an open-source solution for Kubernetes that transforms storage software into self-managing, self-scaling, and self-healing services. Discover the benefits and use cases of Rook, along with an overview of its various storage providers including Ceph, Cassandra, NFS, EdgeFS, YugabyteDB, and CockroachDB. Delve deep into the Ceph storage provider, examining its architecture, recent improvements, and how Rook provides a stable management layer for production environments. Learn about Rook's graduation as the first storage project hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and explore topics such as storage challenges, CSI provisioning, data paths, installation simplicity, cloud environment configurations, automated upgrades, external cluster connections, object bucket provisioning, encryption with key management, and data mirroring. Perfect for attendees of all levels seeking to understand the intricacies of cloud-native storage solutions.