This article explains how Kubernetes VolumePopulator can automatically transfer AI training data from low‑cost OSS storage to high‑performance CPFS volumes, enabling on‑demand model loading, cost‑effective hot‑cold data management, and fully automated lifecycle handling in cloud‑native AI workloads.
This article details the architecture, key concepts, features, and design formulas of PoleFS’s BlobCache distributed caching subsystem, explaining how it achieves high performance, reliability, scalability, multi‑tenant isolation, and elastic capacity within a cloud‑native file system.
PoleFS is a self‑developed, cloud‑native distributed file system that combines POSIX‑compatible interfaces, a high‑performance NVMe cache layer, and low‑cost S3 object storage to achieve microsecond latency, millions of IOPS, massive directory scalability, multi‑protocol access, and flexible client‑side caching for AI, big data, and container workloads.
This article explains how JuiceFS integrates with Kubernetes via the CSI interface, covering its three deployment modes, the detailed Mount‑Pod workflow, step‑by‑step Helm deployment, configuration, verification, and why this cloud‑native storage solution outperforms traditional block storage for modern applications.
The article introduces LightPool, an open‑source NVMe‑over‑Fabric storage pool system presented at HPCA 2024, which combines cloud‑native design, high‑performance lightweight storage engine, and advanced scheduling to improve resource efficiency, cost, and availability for large‑scale distributed databases.
This guide explains how to set up the high‑performance, cloud‑native LiteIO block storage service on a Kubernetes cluster, covering prerequisite VM preparation, kernel upgrade, Docker and Kubernetes installation, CRI configuration, LiteIO component deployment for both LVM and SPDK engines, and verification of Pods and PVCs.
LiteIO is an open‑source, cloud‑native block device service that leverages NVMe‑oF and SPDK to provide high‑performance, scalable storage for Kubernetes‑based workloads, improving storage utilization and enabling FinOps‑driven cost efficiency across large‑scale production environments.
This guide explains why local storage remains essential in the cloud‑native era, outlines a step‑by‑step plan to set up a Kubernetes cluster, deploy Carina for automated local disk management, configure a test Nginx workload, install MinIO and Velero for backup, and finally perform backup and restore operations to verify data integrity.
OrangeFS is Didi’s cloud‑native, multi‑protocol distributed data‑lake storage system that unifies POSIX, S3 and HDFS access on a single logical hierarchy, integrates with Kubernetes via a CSI plugin, supports on‑premise and public‑cloud backends, provides multi‑tenant isolation, and dramatically improves elasticity, utilization and latency for petabyte‑scale workloads such as ride‑hailing logs, machine‑learning training, finance and analytics.
The EuroSys 2023 paper on Baidu’s cloud‑native file storage CFS reveals a metadata service design that trims critical sections, achieving 1.76‑75.82× higher throughput and up to 91.71% lower latency compared to HopsFS and InfiniFS, and has been production‑stable for over three years.
This tutorial walks you through preparing three identical VMs, installing required packages, configuring Rook and Ceph versions, deploying the storage cluster on a Kubernetes 1.20 environment, exposing the Ceph dashboard, and cleaning up the installation, complete with command examples and troubleshooting tips.
This article details New Oriental's approach to building stateful services on Kubernetes, covering the challenges of native storage, the use of custom Operators, the design of the XLSS local storage solution, backup and disaster‑recovery workflows, and a multi‑phase roadmap for large‑scale stateful middleware deployment.
This article explains OPPO's cloud storage journey, covering distributed storage fundamentals, the architecture of its block storage platform, the role of Kubernetes and the Container Storage Interface, sidecar components, and the operational benefits of containerizing storage in a cloud‑native environment.
PolarFS is a user‑space, ultra‑low‑latency distributed file system designed for POLARDB that leverages RDMA, NVMe SSDs, and a novel ParallelRaft protocol to deliver near‑local‑SSD performance, strong consistency, and seamless failover in a cloud‑native environment.
