What is new in Storage for Kubernetes 1.9
With the Holiday seasons upon us, many in the Kubernetes community have been hard at work preparing the delivery of one of the most significant set of changes brought to the Kubernetes storage subsystem. These changes are being released in alpha with some introducing minor updates while others are designed to fundamentally change the way storage is deployed within Kubernetes. This writeup highlights three of the major changes that have been released in version 1.9 of Kubernetes. Raw Block Support There are classes of applications, such as databases, that require direct access to raw block storage without the abstraction of a filesystem for peak performance and consistent IO. Starting with version 1.9, an alpha implementation will allow administrators and users to use existing Kubernetes storage semantics to specify and deploy raw block storage for consumption across a Kubernetes cluster. This feature has been implemented to be backward compatible with existing storage configurati...