Cephalocon 2019

We'll cover use cases that drive the need for read-write-many (RWX) storage for workloads running in containers orchestrated by Kubernetes, Mesos, Cloud Foundry, etc. and the role of CephFS to meet this need. We'll distinguish among various topologies and business and trust relationships and in light of these discuss where it makes sense to use native CephFS vs CephFS via an NFS gateway, as well as when it is helpful to control these via Manila -- with or without other OpenStack infrastructure -- and when using Manila may not be that helpful. Finally we'll cover current work on CephFS and Manila Container Storage Interface (CSI) plugins and the advantages of CSI over the current generation of in-tree and external cloud storage providers.