Direct-CSI: Enabling I/O Intensive Workloads with Kubernetes Object Storage
Speaker: Daniel Valdivia, Engineer, MinIO @dvaldivia
The relationship between Kubernetes and storage continues to evolve. In the early days, adding volumes for container access required coding. Then came the Computer Storage Interface (CSI) that defined a standard interface for Kubernetes to expose storage systems to containers and their workloads. CSI was a step forward, because it made it easier to expose volumes to Kubernetes workloads. While CSI has some value, when legacy apps running on Kubernetes need to access legacy file-and-block storage, it’s not the answer for demanding distributed workloads.
In this session, we’ll explore DirectCSI, a CSI driver that provisions volumes for workloads that require direct access to the storage medium. You’ll learn how DirectCSI is the next step forward in I/O-intensive Kubernetes storage, providing high-consistency guarantees and highly reliable performance in these scenarios.