OpenShift Storage Orchestration with NetApp Trident
Many functions in Kubernetes are implemented using controllers that watch the events on the API objects and take appropriate actions as a result. This talk explores the use of external controllers for storage orchestration, particularly for capabilities that are experimental, vendor-specific, or not yet supported by the existing Volume Plugin API. As a case study, this talk presents Trident (https://github.com/netapp/trident) and demonstrates how it has enabled dynamic storage provisioning for heterogeneous backends and cloning persistent volume before Kubernetes could support such capabilities. The talk will include some of the lessons learned from deploying Trident in production.