 Hello, everyone. Welcome to another lightning talk, many of the things. There have been lots of exciting ones. Today, we're going to be talking about giving you a brief introduction to the CNCF storage tank and what we are, and a little bit of information around the cloud-native storage landscape. So a little bit about us. So who is the storage tank? So my name is Alex Kierkrupp. I'm a co-chair. Spazoli is another co-chair. Come and meet us if you want to ask questions. The tags are technical advisory groups. We have a number of open meetings every second and fourth Wednesday of the month. We have our own repo, and you can see our agenda and join our conference calls. All of our calls are open, and membership is open. So what do the tags do? We are a big bunch of people, so vendors, projects, independent contributors. And we're everywhere on the spectrum from early adopters to leaders and SMEs in our space. But effectively, we provide a community for the storage space where you can learn, get advice, find out about projects in the cloud-native ecosystem, and also help to contribute. We have a number of co-chairs, and we have a number of tech leads. We're always looking for new members, whether as individual contributors or to join in a more formal capacity. And what's the purpose of the tag? So the tags are in place to allow the CNCF to scale. So tags were set up a few years ago back in 2019. They were initially called CNCF-SIGs, but then they were renamed the tags to avoid the confusion. And the main point here is, as the CNCF continues to grow and we have more projects, both in sandbox and cubating and graduated, the TOC needs the ability to scale with the number of projects. And so what the tags do is we provide a group of people that provides SME expertise to the TOC to allow us to scale to enable all the new projects. So what does it mean in real life? Well, there are four things that we focus on. The first is educating end users and we do that by working together as a community to provide white papers and other documents that help with the understanding of the technology. We help the TOC to review projects as they go through the due diligence and they go through the graduation phases within the CNCF. We obviously engage with the user community. We give advice and provide a platform for them to do project presentations and to find out more about the projects in the ecosystem. And of course we're there to be able to ask questions and provide that subject matter expertise in our field. So why should we be thinking about cloud-native storage and why should you be thinking about this? I'll come out and say it's a little controversial but there's no such thing as a stateless architecture. We always have states somewhere, right? There's all applications are going to be storing states whether it's in a database, a key value store, a file system, an object store, block storage, whatever it is. And those applications need and the stateful workloads can now have the benefit of all the patterns and architecture that we've developed in the cloud-native world. So they can benefit from the failover, the scaling, the automatic healing, et cetera, that we've seen from all of the status workloads. And in fact, the CNCF already has a number of very large projects which are part of the ecosystem both as graduated and incubating projects. Some of the graduated projects include Rook which provides an operator for the management and deployment of self-instances. So this gives you block file and object storage. There is Vitesse which is a very large scale, scale out SQL clustering solution originally from a YouTube background and now part of PlanetScale. We've got Harbor which provides a repo for your containers and as a secure store for those containers. Of course there's SED and I'm sure you're all familiar with SED as such a core component of every Kubernetes cluster and provides that robust key value store for the state in Kubernetes. And along a similar line, TIKV which provides a scale out key value store to allow databases and other functions to scale out within Kubernetes. There are also a number of incubating projects which are particularly exciting. Dragonfly which allows you to provide a cache in acceleration layer for your images. KubeFS which is a very powerful scale out file system that can run in Kubernetes as well. And Longhorn which provides a distributed block storage solution that allows you to create block storage on the fly in a hyper-converged or hybrid manner. These of course are not all the projects in this space. These are just the projects that the CNCF has and is looking after. And you'll see the links there to have a look at some of the sandbox projects in particular which are new experimental projects that are growing in this space. So we talked a little bit about the education. I'm not going to go through all of the details but these are some of the links for some of the interesting white papers. All of them will be found on our repo as well. The storage white paper provides a way of understanding the attributes and the layers within a storage system so that we can understand attributes like availability and failover and scalability and durability, et cetera, and understand how those apply to your applications and the impacts that each of those layers in the storage system have on the performance and availability of your applications. We have the data on Kubernetes white paper which provides a lot of useful information and is a collaboration with the DOK team to provide patterns on how you use databases in Kubernetes. And we've also got the cloud native disaster recovery paper which describes the advantages of moving to a cloud native way of doing disaster recovery and providing the active failovers and the automation. And of course there are many more. And if you want to find out more, we have a full session on Wednesday at half past two. We'd love to see some of you there and if you have any more questions, we're all to be there to take your questions there. Finally, please consider joining the tag and helping contribute to the cloud native ecosystem. Feel free to join our meetings. We obviously value any presentations in this space around the management of storage but also block file system, object, key value stores, databases, anything really that's involved in storage in the cloud native world. And finally, consider a role in the tag. We'd love to hear more from you if you have any questions, we'll be around or we can meet on Wednesday. There we go. I think I did it exactly in time.