Tag: Ceph RBD

Who’s Using Ceph RBD Mirroring for Kubernetes Storage in Production?

RBD mirroring in production is one of the patterns I audit and design: Ceph storage consulting. Alpha Feature in Production… Good Idea? The most promising approach, journal-based mirroring, offers near real-time replication and faster failover. However, it’s currently an alpha feature in the Ceph CSI driver and relies on rbd-nbd, Read more

By Julien Laurenceau, 10 months2025-12-15 ago

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Choosing the Right Storage Backend for Kubernetes PVCs

Choosing a PVC backend is an architecture decision I review; the Ceph storage consulting page describes the cluster side. Most discussions about PVC focus on on-prem deployments, but many of these technologies are equally relevant in the cloud, especially when using managed block storage like AWS EBS, which caps at Read more

By Julien Laurenceau, 10 months2025-12-15 ago