The Storage Shift
Plenary | Mon 20 Jan 1:30 p.m.–2:15 p.m.
Presented by
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Steven Ellis
@StevensHat
https://people.redhat.com/sellis/
Steven is a cross APAC Architect and Open Source Technology Evangelist at Red Hat. In the last 30+ years he worked as a developer and transitioned to an infrastructure and operations architect across a broad range of Unix and Linux technologies. For most of that period he’s used Open Source technologies to solve business problems, and on many occasions recover lost data. He freely admits that there have been occasions of data loss, and recovery during that career and really hopes some of the session attendees can avoid his past mis-steps.
In his spare time he still hacks on the MythTV project and debugs Open Source on random bits of hardware that really should know better.
Steven Ellis
@StevensHat
https://people.redhat.com/sellis/
Abstract
Data matters. it is the life blood of most businesses, and where would the internet be if all of those cat pictures suddenly disappeared.
Today there are major changes, not only in the underlying storage technologies, but the ways we consume that storage.
As a developer you might not care about the underlying storage platform, but you need to have access to the optimal storage capability to deliver your application. Operations teams, even in this world of hyperscaler deployments, care about a lot more. Performance, resilience and security are all top of mind, never mind your ever shrinking IT budget.
Even the SoHo or home user has to decide between cloud services and the plethora of home NAS devices.
We'll take a journey into the world of storage technology, take a look at some "legacy" and "modern" approaches for deploying workloads (I'll be honest... not a lot has really changed), and perhaps throw in a couple of war stories along the way.
The session will touch on some typical deployment patterns for workloads and look at how the adoption of “cloud native” approaches like kubernetes and containerization changes the way we consume data..
Some understanding of storage platforms, file-systems and protocols is recommended, but we'll start at an introductory level, and expand to cover modern storage standards and approaches including CSI (Container Storage Interface). The session will also touch on some of the common Open Source Home NAS solutions including Proxmox and TrueNas.
Data matters. it is the life blood of most businesses, and where would the internet be if all of those cat pictures suddenly disappeared. Today there are major changes, not only in the underlying storage technologies, but the ways we consume that storage. As a developer you might not care about the underlying storage platform, but you need to have access to the optimal storage capability to deliver your application. Operations teams, even in this world of hyperscaler deployments, care about a lot more. Performance, resilience and security are all top of mind, never mind your ever shrinking IT budget. Even the SoHo or home user has to decide between cloud services and the plethora of home NAS devices. We'll take a journey into the world of storage technology, take a look at some "legacy" and "modern" approaches for deploying workloads (I'll be honest... not a lot has really changed), and perhaps throw in a couple of war stories along the way. The session will touch on some typical deployment patterns for workloads and look at how the adoption of “cloud native” approaches like kubernetes and containerization changes the way we consume data.. Some understanding of storage platforms, file-systems and protocols is recommended, but we'll start at an introductory level, and expand to cover modern storage standards and approaches including CSI (Container Storage Interface). The session will also touch on some of the common Open Source Home NAS solutions including Proxmox and TrueNas.