A group of engineers from every leading container orchestrator maker have gathered together, virtually, around an initiative to explore a common lexicon for container-based data storage. Initially proposed by Mesosphere’s Benjamin Hindman, the Container Storage Interface initiative — which, for now, is essentially a GitHub document — is exploring the issue of whether the community at large, and their users, would benefit from a standardized API for addressing and managing storage volumes.
“The goal of this standard is to have a single, cluster-level volumes plugin API that is shared by all orchestrators,” Goelzer writes in the group’s preamble. “So, for example, conformant storage plugins written for Docker would run unmodified in Kubernetes (and vice-versa).”
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