Cephalocon 2019

While Kubernetes internally supports a generalized API for managing file and block storage, S3 object storage is fundamentally lacking. Rook, a cloud native storage orchestrator, has brought several S3 object storage providers into the Kubernetes ecosystem, including Ceph-Object. What Rook lacks is a generalized Kubernetes S3 API for bucket provisioning. We are designing and implementing such an operator for Rook. This operator provides a generalized S3 bucket provisioning API for Kubernetes users via a set of Custom Resource Definitions. Through these CRDs, Ceph-Object consumers can utilize Kubernetes to provision and manage their Ceph-Object buckets. This presentation focuses on the design goals and use-cases for native Rook bucket provisioning, and some bucket CRD implementation details.