CSI

Jun 11, 2022

Databases Operations and the Cloud

Database is one of the first-class citizens to run data on Kubernetes, and there are multi-faceted operations to run it. It further requires a data layer to improve availability, scale, and bursting.

Jun 1, 2022

Getting Started with the Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver

In Kubernetes, you might encounter difficulties keeping application API keys, access tokens, and passwords safe. There are several approaches to solve this problem. In this DoKC session, DigitalOcean’s developer advocate, Kim Schlesinger, demonstrates how to install Hashicorp Vault and the Secrets Store CSI Driver to ensure your application’s accessibility to secrets stored in ephemeral volumes.

Nov 30, 2021

Using stateful services to index the world of open source

Sourcegraph is a universal code search engine that allows developers to search across their entire codebases. It can be deployed on-prem or used directly from the cloud. The service currently indexes over 1 million open source repositories and provides code search across them. Sourcegraph is planning on indexing every open source repository with more than 1 star on GitHub, GitLab, and other code hosts. To achieve this scale, it relies on Kubernetes to scale several stateful services.

Nov 26, 2021

What's Coming in Kubernetes Storage

Kubernetes provides a way for containers in the pods to consume block or file storage. There’s also a COSI sub-project in SIG Storage that is trying to add object storage support in Kubernetes. In this session, Xing will talk about some features that SIG Storage is currently developing and designing, and highlight a few items that the Data Protection WG has been working on.