Videos and blogs
Watch videos and read blogs to learn more about IBM block storage solutions and the IBM block storage CSI driver.
Videos
| Video | Summary |
|---|---|
| (4:03) Block Storage vs. File Storage | Amy Blea, IBM Cloud Offering Manager, gives an overview of two types of traditional cloud storage: block storage and file storage. Publication date: 26 February 2019 |
| (38:47) Container Storage Interface: Present and Future | Jie Yu, Tech Lead at Mesosphere, Inc., provides an overview about CSI, discusses CSI from a container orchestrator's perspective, and why this interface makes the container orchestrator's life much easier. He includes an actual integration
example and deployment that was used in Mesos. Publication date: 7 May 2018 |
Blogs
| Blog | Summary |
|---|---|
| Kubernetes 1.17 Feature: Kubernetes Volume Snapshot Moves to Beta | Xing Yang of VMware and Xiangqian Yu of Google summarizes the Kubernetes volume Snapshot feature, its advantages, and how to use it. Last updated: 9 December 2019 |
| IBM Storage brings enterprise data services to containers | Jeff Eckard, Vice President, Cloud Data Solutions, IBM presents the challenges of storage provisioning and how IBM Storage as well as Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform come to address these requirements. Last updated: 1 August 2019 |
| Supercharging Kubernetes Storage with CSI | Vladimir Vivien, Staff Engineer, VMware, provides an overview of Kubernetes and its use CSI, and related concepts. Last updated: 18 April 2019 |
| Container Storage Interface (CSI) for Kubernetes GA | Saad Ali, Senior Software Engineer, Google, introduces CSI for Kubernetes GA release. Last updated: 15 January 2019 |
| Topology-Aware Volume Provisioning in Kubernetes | Michelle Au, Google Last updated: 11 October 2018 |
| Understanding the Container Storage Interface (CSI) | Anoop Vijayan Mmaniankara, DevOps, Kubernetes, gives a high-level overview of CSI. He focuses on the history of CSI and its advantages. Last updated: 12 August 2018 |