KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024

This presentation helps simplify the container storage landscape to assist K8s users make educated cloud storage choices based on their workload requirements and data strategy. You already know K8s is a an open-source platform that orchestrates containerized applications. But what type of cloud storage should one deploy for stateless and stateful applications to ensure persistent data across various operational scenarios? Different storage types cater to specific use cases within K8s environments. Organizations often require persistent storage to run K8s for stateful use cases such as Large-Scale Application Deployment, High-Performance Computing (HPC), AI/ML, Microservices Management, CI/CD Pipelines, and Big Data Processing. Because Block, File, and Object Storage are used in varying ways for containerized workloads, this talk will explain use cases for each storage type and educate the attendees so their selection of storage supports their applications and overall data strategy.