Cloud Native Storage, with Alex Chircop

Jun 10, 2022

As we move further up the stack, we rely on many foundations – including storage. Alex Chircop is co-chair of the CNCF Storage Technical Advisory Group (TAG), as well as founder and CEO of Ondat (formerly StorageOS). Join us to learn why no app is truly stateless, and how data is the new storage.

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Chatter of the week

• Crowded House snippets:
  • Distant Sun
  • Sister Madly
  • Don’t Dream It’s Over (you know this one)
  • Weather With You
  • Something So Strong
  • How Will You Go

News of the week

• Kubernetes 2021 annual report and blog post discussing it
• SUSECon news
  • SLSA Level 4
• The State of CD 2022 report
• Introducing OpenCost
  • Spec
  • Episode 124, with Webb Brown
• OSTIF and ADA Logics posts discussing the CRI-O project audit
• Bitnami Helm chart pruning and Reddit discussion
• Upcoming Code of Conduct changes at the CNCF

Links from the interview

• Goldman Sachs on Google Cloud
• Episode 181, with Justin Santa Barbara
• KubeCon EU 2016
• CNCF TAG Storage
• Data on Kubernetes community
• CNCF TAGs
  • CNCF Storage WG talk at KubeCon EU 2019
  • CNCF TAG Storage talk at KubeCon EU 2022
• Kubernetes SIG Storage
  • Xing Yang
  • CSI and COSI
• Quinton Hoole
  • Federation, aka “Ubernetes”
• Whitepapers:
  • Storage
  • Disaster Recovery
• Ondat
  • Updog
• Alex Chircop on Twitter