Rook with Travis Nielsen

16/06/2021 32 min

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Episode Synopsis

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Travis Nielsen (@STravisNielsen) talk about Rook, the open-source storage orchestrator for Kubernetes. Travis is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, and maintainer of Rook. Join us to dive deep into the story of Rook, from Microsoft, to Quantum, to Red Hat.
In this episode we discuss:

Ceph + Kubernetes = Rook
The difficulty and importance of a stable storage solution for stateless applications
How Rook leverages Kubernetes CRDs
Why the Rook team decided to work with the CNCF
Red Hat’s philosophy and approach to open-source


Links:

Rook
Red Hat
Upbound
Quantum
CNCF


People mentioned:

Bassam Tabbara (@bassamtabbara)
Jared Watts (@jbw976)