Rook: Intro and Deep Dive With Ceph Storage
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · on Wednesday, 2025-04-02· at 11:15· Platinum Suite | Level 3 | Room 3-4·
summary
Rook is a Kubernetes operator that runs Ceph to provide block, shared filesystem and S3 object storage and claims production scale with examples: a reported cluster of 250 nodes, 1,800 OSDs, ~5.2 PB and Ceph public telemetry reaching exabytes; tuned setups hitting 1 TB/s reported throughput. Releases add features: 1.16 (Dec 2024) adds namespace mirroring, S3 storage-class/audit logs and multi-network; CSI supports RBD, CephFS, NFS with snapshots, PVC encryption, replication and planned CSI operator default + 1.17 (Apr 2025). Topology-aware PDBs and documented recovery steps exist after full-node imaging.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Rook introduction
- 1:06What is Rook and why
- 2:52Ceph choice for Rook
- 4:40Rook deployment
- 6:04Rook 1.16 features
- 7:29Ceph CSI driver overview
- 13:04Object storage with Rook
- 17:39Rook cluster maintenance
- 25:01Project health and community
- 27:49Q&A
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