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What’s the Biggest Gap in Kubernetes Storage Architecture?

It offers easy scaling, great stability and reliability, works across many different environments. In short, it offers all the features that developers love.

The fact that it doesn’t exist — there isn’t anything that could be appropriately called a storage architecture in Kubernetes.

This would incorporate Google’s and Red Hat’s particular design bias into the system, and it would contribute to vendor lock-in, something that would be against the open source nature of the Kubernetes project.

Ultimately, all this is to say that commercial storage solutions are a better fit for most Kubernetes users than open source ones, but that doesn’t mean you can skip the evaluation process.