Intro: vSphere Cloud Provider and CSI
Kubernetes cloud providers and volume plugins used to be "in-tree" meaning that their source code is included in the main Kubernetes repo. They were compiled in, and shipped only in a Kubernetes relea …
| Talk Title | Intro: vSphere Cloud Provider and CSI |
| Speakers | Fabio Rapposelli (Staff Engineer 2, VMware) |
| Conference | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America |
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| Location | San Diego, CA, USA |
| Date | Nov 15-21, 2019 |
| URL | Talk Page |
| Slides | Talk Slides |
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Kubernetes cloud providers and volume plugins used to be “in-tree” meaning that their source code is included in the main Kubernetes repo. They were compiled in, and shipped only in a Kubernetes release. The drawbacks of this monolithic approach were that Kubernetes was larger than needed, and feature + patch activity was locked to Kubernetes release schedules. Going forward, new features are exclusive to the new replacements: an out-of-tree vSphere cloud provider + a CSI storage plugin. Legacy implementations remain for the short term but are destined for deprecation.
