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11:15 BST

Rook: Intro and Deep Dive With Ceph Storage - Travis Nielsen, Blaine Gardner & Madhu Rajanna, IBM, Artem Torubarov & Deepika Upadhyay, Clyso

Wednesday April 2, 2025 11:15 - 11:45 BST

Platinum Suite | Level 3 | Room 3-4

The Rook project will be introduced to attendees of all levels and experience. Rook is an open source cloud-native storage operator for Kubernetes, providing the platform, framework, and support for Ceph to natively integrate with Kubernetes. The panel will discuss various scenarios to show how Rook configures Ceph to provide stable block, shared file system, and object storage for your production data. Rook was accepted as a graduated project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in October 2020.

Speakers

Madhu R

Software Architect at IBM Deutschland RD GmbH, IBM Deutschland RD GmbH

Software Architect at IBM Storage on the OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) team. He is a maintainer of the Ceph-CSI and CSI-Addons and a reviewer of the Rook project.

Travis Nielsen

Rook Lead Maintainer, IBM

Travis Nielsen is a Senior Technical Staff Member for IBM where he is a maintainer on Rook and member of the ODF and Ceph engineering team. Prior to IBM and Red Hat, Travis worked in storage at Quantum and Symform, a P2P storage startup, and was an engineering lead for the Windows... Read More →

Blaine Gardner

Rook Maintainer, IBM

Blaine is a Senior Advisory Software Engineer at IBM Storage on the Ceph OpenShift/Fusion Data Foundation (ODF) team. He is a maintainer of the CNCF-graduated Rook project making sure Ceph and Kubernetes live together in harmony. Their current focus topics are the Container Object... Read More →

Deepika Upadhyay

Ceph Engineer, Clyso

I’m Deepika, a Ceph Engineer at Clyso working on the Rook project. With over 5 years in the Ceph community, I specialize in deploying large-scale Rook Ceph clusters for enterprises, particularly in containerized environments. My career started with Ceph Storage Engineering, focusing... Read More →

Artem Torubarov

Software engineer, Clyso GmbH

Senior software engineer with over 10 years of experience. I’m a passionate advocate for Go, Kubernetes, and the CNCF ecosystem. Most part of my careed developed deistributed backend applications. Currently, I work at Clyso, focusing on storage technologies, including running Ceph... Read More →

Wednesday April 2, 2025 11:15 - 11:45 BST
Platinum Suite | Level 3 | Room 3-4

Maintainer Track, Rook