Rook is a cloud native storage orchestrator and a controller for storage systems such as Ceph. Jared Watts has been working on Rook since the start, first at Quantum, and then at Upbound. He talks to Craig and Adam about storage, chess, and premium-rate telephone numbers.
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Chatter of the week

Tabletop Simulator (a computer game)
Happy (a televisual programme)

News of the week

Kubernetes Day India from the CNCF
Vertical Pod Autoscaling in GKE in Beta

Vertical Pod Autoscaler in OSS


Announcing TriggerMesh Knative Lambda Runtime (KLR)

Episode 28 with Sebastien Goasguen


krew, the package manager for kubectl plugins
Monitoring Kubernetes, by Sean Porter of Sensu on the CNCF Blog
Istio 1.1 update

Episode 15 with Jasmine Jaksic and Dan Ciruli


Kubernetes authorization via Open Policy Agent by Stefan Bueringer

Links from the interview

Symform; Jared’s first startup, peer-to-peer cloud storage

Totally unlike KaZaA
Where Jared first met open source, through the Mono project
Acquired by Quantum

Craig explicitly remembers owning a Quantum Bigfoot (though that one wasn’t his first hard drive)




Rook, a cloud native storage orcestrator

SIG Storage and the Volume abstraction
Started with support for Ceph
Also now supports CockroachDB, Minio, NFS, Apache Cassandra
But not Gluster - for now at least
Added to the CNCF Sandbox in January 2018, and moved to incubating in August


Upbound; founded by Bassam Tabbara
Container Storage Interface 1.0.0
Rook on GitHub
Queen Storage
Jared Watts on Twitter and the Rook blog

Why you might have had to pay 90c per minute to tweet Jared