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.

Intro
Rook is Graduated!
Storage Challenges
What is Rook?
Storage Providers
What is Ceph?
Architectural Layers
Rook Management
CSI Provisioning
Ceph Data Path
Installing Ceph is simple!
Request Storage for Apps
Environments
Ceph in a Cloud Environment
Configurable for Cluster Topologies
Ceph CSI Driver
Upgrading is automated
External Cluster Connection
Object Bucket Provisioning
Encryption with Key Management
Mirroring of Block Data
Stretched Kubernetes Cluster