Cloud Native Storage and Data: The CNCF Storage TAG Projects, Technology & Landscape
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · on Wednesday, 2025-04-02· at 14:30· Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12·
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CNCF Storage TAG is consolidating eight tags to five to handle rapid growth from about 40 projects to 215 projects (33 added last year), and it publishes concrete guidance: Storage Whitepaper v3, Performance & Benchmarking guidance, Cloud Native Disaster Recovery v2, and Data on Kubernetes papers. Notable projects discussed include Rook, Vitess, Harbor, TiKV and CubeFS; the landscape shows >300 operators (50+ database operators) and practical patterns — CSI drivers, operators, topology-aware scheduling, backup/replication modes — with recommended testing and observability practices.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction to CNCF Storage TAG
- 1:47TAG reboot and restructuring
- 3:58Why cloud native storage matters
- 5:24Graduated storage projects overview
- 6:27Project maturity stages explained
- 8:15Storage White Paper overview
- 10:02Data workloads trends on K8s
- 13:38Databases on K8s with operators
- 16:31Data on K8s challenges and patterns
- 19:01Performance benchmarking white paper
- 21:50Disaster recovery strategies
- 28:38Community involvement and next steps
- 29:41Q&A
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