Longhorn: What's New & What's Next for Cloud Native Persistent Storage
summary
Longhorn is a CNCF-incubating cloud native block storage that runs as a control plane plus data plane inside Kubernetes, claims production readiness for the new v2 data engine and ships incremental snapshots, disaster recovery and RWX without vendor lock‑in. Project reports ~238k node installs across ~51.9k clusters, follows a three‑minor‑releases‑per‑year cadence (Jan/May/Sept) and plans fast volume cloning in July plus experimental sharding and live upgrade work toward 13.0.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and context
- 3:12What is Longhorn
- 7:52How Longhorn works
- 10:41Data engine and performance
- 15:20Release cadence and versions
- 17:49Key features in latest releases
- 21:20Community and contribution
- 24:56Community meetings and resources
- 27:06Production use and graduation
- 29:13Getting started today
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