More gripping than a crime scene in Las Vegas, the Container Storage Interface (CSI) lets vendors interface with Kubernetes. Saad Ali from Google led development of Kubernetes storage, including the CSI and volume subsystem. He joins hosts Adam and Craig for an in-depth look at how storage works in Kubernetes.
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Chatter of the week

Adam’s puzzle
How they made The Mandalorian

Unreal Engine: Project Spotlight


Fraggle Rock: Rock On!
Lockdown music videos:

Crowded House: Something So Strong
Mostar Diving Club: Quiet Hands



News of the week

IBM Cloud Satellite
Google Cloud Buildpacks
Anthos for app modernisation via CI/CD and transforming legacy Java applications
Azure Container Registry adds dedicated data endpoints
Amazon ECR: multi-architecture containers
Amazon Cloudwatch adds Prometheus metrics
run:AI creates fractional GPU sharing for Kubernetes
The State of Cloud Native Development: CNCF survey (PDF)
VMware’s State of Kubernetes 2020 (PDF)
Gatekeeper Policy Management from SIGHUP

Episode 101, with Tim Hinrichs and Torin Sandall


Datastax Astra on GCP and Sam Ramji’s blog

Episode 98 with Sam Ramji


Introducing PodTopologySpread by Aldo Culquicondor and Wei Huang
Pod Security Policies at Square by Jason Price
Introduction to OpenTelemetry by Ran Ribenzaft

Episode 97, with Yuri Shkuro


Kubernetes and Istio on the F-16 jet: CNCF case study
GKE logging introduction by Charles Baer and Xiang Shen
Helm and Kustomize, better together

Helm, with Matt Butcher
Kustomize, with Phillip Wittrock



Links from the interview

SIG Storage
KubeCon keynote: Debunking the Myth: Kubernetes Storage is Hard
Episode 41 with Tim Hockin
Docker: Volumes
Volumes
Persistent Volumes
In-tree volume plugins (deprecated)
FlexVolume
Container Storage Interface
Kubernetes CSI docs

Design doc


CSI GA announcement
CSI sidecar containers
Ephemeral CSI volumes (Beta)
Secrets Store CSI driver
Local persistent volumes
Data populators KEP
CSI topology
Topology-aware volume provisioning
CSI for Persistent Memory
GKE on AWS
CSI TV theme songs
The Who: Substitute
Saad Ali on Twitter