Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 19:15:31 +0000
<p><a href="https://rook.io">Rook</a> is a cloud native storage orchestrator and a controller for storage systems such as <a href="https://ceph.com/">Ceph</a>. Jared Watts has been working on Rook since the start, first at Quantum, and then at Upbound. He talks to <a href="https://kubernetespodcast.com/about">Craig and Adam</a> about storage, chess, and premium-rate telephone numbers.</p> <p><em>Does anyone actually read the show notes?</em> Turns out a few of you do. Thank you for listening and reading!</p> <ul> <li>web: <a href="https://kubernetespodcast.com">kubernetespodcast.com</a></li> <li>mail: <a href="mailto:kubernetespodcast@google.com">kubernetespodcast@google.com</a></li> <li>twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/kubernetespod">@kubernetespod</a></li> </ul> <h3 id="chatter-of-the-week">Chatter of the week</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://berserk-games.com/tabletop-simulator/">Tabletop Simulator</a> (a computer game)</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy!_(TV_series)">Happy</a> (a televisual programme)</li> </ul> <h3 id="news-of-the-week">News of the week</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-day-india-2019/"> Kubernetes Day India</a> from the CNCF</li> <li><a href="https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/vertical-pod-autoscaling"> Vertical Pod Autoscaling in GKE</a> in Beta <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/vertical-pod-autoscaler"> Vertical Pod Autoscaler in OSS</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://triggermesh.com/2019/01/09/announcing-triggermesh-knative-lambda-runtime-klr/"> Announcing TriggerMesh Knative Lambda Runtime (KLR)</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/028-triggermesh/">Episode 28</a> with Sebastien Goasguen</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/krew">krew</a>, the package manager for kubectl plugins</li> <li><a href="https://www.cncf.io/blog/2019/01/09/monitoring-kubernetes-part-1-the-challenges-data-sources/"> Monitoring Kubernetes</a>, by Sean Porter of Sensu on the CNCF Blog</li> <li><a href="https://discuss.istio.io/t/status-of-istio-1-1/33">Istio 1.1 update</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/015-istio/">Episode 15</a> with Jasmine Jaksic and Dan Ciruli</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://itnext.io/kubernetes-authorization-via-open-policy-agent-a9455d9d5ceb"> Kubernetes authorization via Open Policy Agent</a> by Stefan Bueringer</li> </ul> <h3 id="links-from-the-interview">Links from the interview</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://symform.com/">Symform</a>; Jared’s first startup, peer-to-peer cloud storage <ul> <li>Totally unlike <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazaa">KaZaA</a></li> <li>Where Jared first met open source, through the <a href="https://www.mono-project.com/">Mono project</a></li> <li>Acquired by <a href="https://www.quantum.com/">Quantum</a> <ul> <li>Craig explicitly remembers owning a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Bigfoot">Quantum Bigfoot</a> (though that one wasn’t his first hard drive)</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://rook.io/">Rook</a>, a cloud native storage orcestrator <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-storage">SIG Storage</a> and the <a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/volumes/">Volume abstraction</a></li> <li>Started with support for <a href="https://ceph.com/">Ceph</a></li> <li>Also now supports <a href="https://www.cockroachlabs.com/">CockroachDB</a>, <a href="https://www.minio.io/">Minio</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System">NFS</a>, <a href="http://cassandra.apache.org/">Apache Cassandra</a></li> <li>But not <a href="https://www.gluster.org/">Gluster</a> - <a href="https://github.com/rook/rook/issues/2044">for now</a> at least</li> <li><a href="https://www.cncf.io/blog/2018/01/29/cncf-host-rook-project-cloud-native-storage-capabilities/"> Added to the CNCF Sandbox in January 2018</a>, and moved to <a href="https://blog.rook.io/rook-moves-into-the-cncf-incubator-d25197a6bb14"> incubating in August</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://upbound.io/">Upbound</a>; founded by <a href="https://twitter.com/bassamtabbara">Bassam Tabbara</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/container-storage-interface/spec/releases/tag/v1.0.0"> Container Storage Interface 1.0.0</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/rook/rook">Rook on GitHub</a></li> <li><a href="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sNlAG2rlnJE/maxresdefault.jpg">Queen Storage</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/jbw976">Jared Watts on Twitter</a> and <a href="https://blog.rook.io/">the Rook blog</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/976_numbers">Why you might have had to pay 90c per minute to tweet Jared</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul>
