Rook: Enterprise Storage for Kubernetes

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Rook packages the Ceph data platform into Kubernetes using an operator and CSI driver to automate deployment, upgrades and provisioning, delivering block, shared file and S3‑compatible object storage from the same cluster. It claims production stability with clusters of hundreds of nodes and petabytes of data, reports over 200 million downloads and ~300 contributors, and is a CNCF graduated project (October 2020). Current release is 1.6 and users report it working at scale.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:16Who needs storage?
3. 1:29Goals for K8s Storage
4. 2:35Production Ready
5. 3:11Production Storage Platformo
6. 3:59Community
7. 4:35Project
8. 5:20Environments
9. 6:16Architecture Layers
10. 6:58Get Involved!

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