Intro to the CNCF SIG Storage

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SIG Storage maintains a public repo, meets twice a month on the second and fourth Wednesdays, and publishes concrete artifacts: a storage landscape white paper, an end‑user storage survey, and a performance benchmarking draft done with Percona and Vitesse. The group reviews CNCF storage projects and provides technical due diligence to the TOC, tracks project lifecycle moves like Rook and etcd graduations, and curates use case templates for volumes, databases, object stores and CSI integrations so operators can map requirements to real topologies.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:41Background • Overall Purpose of a CNCF SIG
3. 3:14Objectives of a CNCF SIG
4. 6:15SIG Responsibilities (5)
5. 8:11Why is Storage Critical? . There's no such thing as a stateless architecture, applications store state somewhere.
6. 10:19CNCF SIG Storage Scope • Storage systems and approaches suitable for and commonly stores, file systems, object stores, databases, key-value stores, and related caching mechanisms . Strive to understand the fundamental characteristics of different storage approaches with respect to availability scalability, performance, durability, consistency, ease-of- use cost and operational complexity, and relate these to their more detail in the CNCF Storage Landscape White Paper
7. 12:11Interfaces with other groups
8. 13:24What have we been working on?
9. 15:46CNCF Storage Projects
10. 16:59Storage Landscape Whitepaper • Whitepaper
11. 19:11Storage Attributes Availability Scalability Performance Consistency Durability
12. 20:49Storage Layers
13. 22:16Databases in Whitepaper
14. 23:54Storage Performance Whitepaper
15. 26:00What we need help with

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