The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has graduated Rook, an open source storage orchestrator for Kubernetes clusters, at a time when the number of stateful applications being built and deployed using containers is starting to increase.
Rook automates deployment, bootstrapping, configuration, provisioning, scaling, upgrading and migration of storage services on Kubernetes platforms in addition to enabling disaster recovery, monitoring and resource management.
Jared Watts, a Rook maintainer and founding engineer for Upbound, a provider of an open source platform for private clouds, says each storage service made is configured using Kubernetes Operator tools. Storage platforms supported by Rook include Ceph, EdgeFS, CockroachDB, Cassandra, NFS and Yugabyte DB.