OpenEBS, with Evan Powell

Jun 4, 2019

Evan Powell is the CEO and chairman of MayaData, the corporate sponsor of OpenEBS, which has just joined the CNCF Sandbox. He talks to Adam and Craig about Cloud Native storage, chaos engineering for stateful workloads, and the stubbornness of hybrid clouds.

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Chatter of the week

• Cricket and rugby on the same day
• Poseidon’s Anchor bass
• Black Mirror and The Rain
  • Don’t go out in the pouring rain

News of the week

• Docker bug allows reading/writing host files
  • Advisory by Aleksa Sarai
  • Duo Security writeup
• Kubernetes bug allows containers to run as root
  • Security advisory
  • GitHub issue
  • GKE security bulletin
• Palo Alto Networks announces intention to buy Twistlock
  • TechCrunch coverage
  • CVEs found by Twistlock Labs
• Kubernetes Node.js client library 0.9.0
  • List of client libraries
• NVIDIA EGX
• CKA now valid for 3 years
• Microsoft news:
  • AKS available in South Africa North
  • OCI types and Helm 3 charts in Azure Container Registry
  • Azure Monitor supports Windows Server nodes

Links from the interview

• OpenEBS
  • On GitHub
• Now a CNCF Sandbox project
  • TOC issue: Propose OpenEBS into CNCF Sandbox
  • OpenEBS accepted into CNCF and OpenEBS 0.9 released
  • OpenEBS Project Update and whats coming in v1.0
• A year later: updating Container Attached Storage by Evan Powell
• MayaData
• KUBEMOVE (and on GitHub)
• NDM, the Node Disk Manager
• Evan’s talk at SDC 2017 with Homer Simpson references
• New storage technologies:
  • Optane/3D XPoint for DRAM-like storage
  • NVME over Fabrics
  • SPDK
  • Fast fabrics
• Litmus (and on GitHub)
  • Chaos Monkey and Simian Army
  • Weave Scope
• The mule logo: OpenEBS, MayaData