Longhorn vs OpenEBS: Persistent Storage for Kubernetes That Isn't a Nightmare

Tue, 04 Jun 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Kubernetes storage has a reputation, and the reputation is “here be dragons.” The moment you move past stateless web apps and want to run a database, a wiki or anything that remembers things, you hit the persistent volume problem. In the cloud you’d shrug and attach an EBS volume. In a homelab or on-prem cluster, you have a pile of machines with local disks and no shared storage to bind them together. A pod that gets rescheduled to a different node finds its data has stayed behind.

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Longhorn vs OpenEBS: Persistent Storage for Kubernetes That Isn't a Nightmare