Rook Alternatives

rook reviews and mentions

• Kubernetes homelab - Learning by doing, Part 4: Storage
  2 projects | dev.to | 31 Oct 2024

  Distributed storage systems enable us to store data that can be made available clusterwide. Excellent! But dynamically apportioning storage across a multi-node cluster is a very complex job. So this is another area where Kubernetes typically outsources the job to plugins (e.g. Cloud providers like Azure or AWS, or systems like Rook or Longhorn).

• Data on Kubernetes: Part 2 - Deploying Databases in K8s with PostgreSQL, CloudNative-PG, and Ceph Rook on Amazon EKS
  1 project | dev.to | 15 Jul 2024

  For customized settings, you can check values.yaml.

  7 projects | dev.to | 15 Jul 2024

  In this blog post, we'll explore how to combine CloudNative-PG (a PostgreSQL operator) and Ceph Rook (a storage orchestrator) to create a PostgreSQL cluster that scales easily, recovers from failures, and ensures data persistence - all within an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service EKS cluster.

• Searchable Kubernetes StorageClass Listing
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jun 2024

  My experience is that OpenEBS and Longhorn are cool and new and simplified, but that I would only trust my life to Rook/Ceph. If it's going into production, I'd say look at https://rook.io/ - Ceph can do both block and filesystem volumes.

• Ceph: A Journey to 1 TiB/s
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jan 2024

  I have some experience with Ceph, both for work, and with homelab-y stuff.

  First, bear in mind that Ceph is a distributed storage system - so the idea is that you will have multiple nodes.

  For learning, you can definitely virtualise it all on a single box - but you'll have a better time with discrete physical machines.

  Also, Ceph does prefer physical access to disks (similar to ZFS).

  And you do need decent networking connectivity - I think that's the main thing people think of, when they think of high hardware requirements for Ceph. Ideally 10Gbe at the minimum - although more if you want higher performance - there can be a lot of network traffic, particularly with things like backfill. (25Gbps if you can find that gear cheap for homelab - 50Gbps is a technological dead-end. 100Gbps works well).

  But honestly, for a homelab, a cheap mini PC or NUC with 10Gbe will work fine, and you should get acceptable performance, and it'll be good for learning.

  You can install Ceph directly on bare-metal, or if you want to do the homelab k8s route, you can use Rook (https://rook.io/).

  Hope this helps, and good luck! Let me know if you have any other questions.

• Running stateful workloads on Kubernetes with Rook Ceph
  4 projects | dev.to | 26 Dec 2023

  Another option is to leverage a Kubernetes-native distributed storage solution such as Rook Ceph as the storage backend for stateful components running on Kubernetes. This has the benefit of simplifying application configuration while addressing business requirements for data backup and recovery such as the ability to take volume snapshots at a regular interval and perform application-level data recovery in case of a disaster.

• People who run Nextcloud in Docker: Where do you store your data/files? In a Docker volume, or on a remote server/NAS?
  1 project | /r/selfhosted | 20 Jun 2023

  This is beyond your question but might help someone else: I switch from docker-compose to kubernetes for my home lab a while ago. The storage solution I've settled on is Rook. It was a bit of up-front work learning how to get it up but now that it's done my storage is automatically managed by Ceph. I can swap out drives and Ceph basically takes care of everything itself.

• Rook/Ceph with VM nodes on research cluster?
  1 project | /r/kubernetes | 11 May 2023

  The stumbling point I am at is I want to use rook.io(Ceph) as my storage solution for the cluster. The Ceph prerequisites are one of the following:

• Asking for recommendation on remote Kubernetes storage for a small cluster and databases
  1 project | /r/kubernetes | 20 Apr 2023

  Have you looked at Rook?

• Want advice on planned evolution: k3os/Longhorn --> Talos/Ceph, plus Consul and Vault
  6 projects | /r/homelab | 15 Apr 2023

  I've briefly run ceph in an external mode, you can actually use a rook deployment to manage it (sort of). Here is the documentation for doing that. For me it didn't pass my testing phase because I need better networking equipment before I can try that.

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