VMware SIG: Cloud Provider Moving Out of Tree+CSI - What it Means to Users
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 | VMware SIG: Cloud Provider Moving Out of Tree+CSI - What it Means to Users |
| Speakers | Fabio Rapposelli (Staff Engineer 2, VMware), Steven Wong (Open Source Software Engineer, VMware) |
| Conference | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon |
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| Location | Shanghai, China |
| Date | Jun 23-26, 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 destined are for deprecation. Agenda: - Deep Dive : Install and configure of out-of-tree cloud provider + CSI storage - Migration options for current users This session will be useful to: - Users running Kubernetes on VMware infrastructure - Authors of installers and Kubernetes distributions which target the vSphere platform
