#10 DoK community: Data on Kubernetes and container attached storage - an update // Evan Powell

For our 10th installation of the data on k8s community meetup, we talk with CEO of Mayadata Evan Powell about container attached storage, Portworx acquisition, openEBS, can open source make it, and we geek out a bit with questions from the audience.

// Key takeaways:

Kubernetes - extended by CAS and other software - is not just solving the problems of running data on Kubernetes, it is fast becoming the preferred platform for data.

// Abstract:

Back in 2018 the CNCF published a blog we wrote called Container Attached Storage. Today - September 22nd 2020 - a new blog is appearing on their site updating Container Attached Storage. https://bit.ly/2FYGgeR

This talk borrows very heavily from that blog. What is CAS? Why would anyone use Kubernetes itself for storage? How does a microservices architecture help? Why is shared storage at the end of the road - though still used underneath CAS sometimes?

// Evan Bio

Evan has helped conceptualize, fund, position, lead and scale a few eventually important enterprise infrastructure software companies which were acquired. He is also a part time investor and mentor.

Evan is currently CEO at MayaData. MayaData enables the use of Kubernetes as a data layer and sponsors open source projects including the CNCF project OpenEBS and the LitmusChaos engineering project. MayaData also helps to sponsor DOKC.

Previously Evan helped conceptualize and build StackStorm, a DevOps workflow automation company, where he was co-founder and CEO. StackStorm was acquired and the project became a Linux Foundation project.

Before StackStorm, Evan was founding CEO of Nexenta Systems which defined and led the open storage and software-defined storage space.

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This meetup is sponsored by MayaData, which helped start the DOK.community and remains an active supporter. MayaData sponsors two Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects, OpenEBS (http://www.openEBS.io) - the leading open-source container attached storage solution - and Litmus (https://litmuschaos.io/) - the leading Kubernetes native chaos engineering project, which was recently donated to the CNCF as a Sandbox project. As of August 2020, MayaData is the fifth-largest contributor to CNCF projects. Well-known users of MayaData software include the CNCF itself, Bloomberg, Comcast, Arista, Orange, Intuit, and others. Check out more info at https://mayadata.io/