Longhorn - Introduction, Deep Dive and Q&A

Explore Longhorn, a cloud-native distributed block storage solution for Kubernetes, in this 36-minute conference talk from CNCF. Learn about Longhorn's architecture as a persistent volume provider via CSI, designed for resource efficiency and flexible deployment across public cloud, private cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. Discover how Longhorn has achieved widespread community adoption with hundreds of thousands of installations worldwide through its high availability, resilience, and feature-rich functionality powered by its general-purpose V1 data engine. Dive deep into the latest developments with the V2 data engine, including the newly introduced UBLK frontend, offline replica rebuilding capabilities, and other key enhancements. Gain insights into upcoming plans for the V2 engine, including online replica delta chunk-based rebuilding and interruption mode for the SPDK data path to enable V2 deployment on low-resource setups. Get updates on the project roadmap, community adoption trends, contribution patterns, and ongoing community engagement initiatives from SUSE's Shuo Wu.