Cloud Native Storage and Data: The CNCF Storage TAG Projects, Te... Raffaele Spazzoli & Alex Chircop
Raffaele Spazzoli, Alex Chircop
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · Session
This session, presented by Alex Chircop, Jing, and Raffaele Spazzoli, offers a comprehensive exploration of cloud-native storage within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ecosystem. It delves into the critical role of data and stateful applications in Kubernetes, challenging the common misconception of cloud-native as purely stateless. The speakers, all prominent figures within the CNCF's Technical Advisory Group (TAG) Storage, outlined the TAG's ongoing initiatives, including its restructuring, and highlighted key whitepapers addressing cloud-native storage attributes, running data workloads on Kubernetes, performance benchmarking, and disaster recovery.
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This session by the CNCF TAG Storage leadership provides an indispensable deep dive into cloud-native storage and data management within Kubernetes. It masterfully debunks the "stateless" myth, offering comprehensive guidance through their whitepapers on critical attributes, operator-driven data management, and detailed disaster recovery archetypes. The insights into performance benchmarking pitfalls and the latest DoK survey data offer actionable intelligence for anyone building or defending stateful applications in this ecosystem, directly from the architects of the cloud-native storage…