Abstract
At 2017, Sheng talked about a new distributed block storage project Longhorn on the stage of SDC. Two years later, the key concepts of Longhorn rely on still holds, though many things changed. For the last two years, one of the most important things in the cloud computing area is the rising of Kubernetes. As a storage system designed based on the container technology, Longhorn transformed to become a Kubernetes-based storage solution. Kubernetes brought Longhorn many more. At the same time, it also forced Longhorn to adapt.
In this session, Sheng will talk about the rising of Kubernetes, what does it bring to the table of storage, and how it affected the development of Longhorn. He will also examine how Longhorn transformed from container based to Kubernetes based, and the changes had to be made to accommodate Kubernetes, and what does it like for the storage developer/vendor to work with Kubernetes.