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6-7 August
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11:30am IST

Rook: Intro and Deep Dive With Ceph Storage - Subham Rai, Nikhil Ladha, Rakshith R & Nitin Goyal, IBM; Deepika Upadhyay, Clyso

Thursday August 7, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm IST

MRG 1-6

The Rook project will be introduced to attendees of all levels and experience. Rook is an open source cloud-native storage operator for Kubernetes, providing the platform, framework, and support for Ceph to natively integrate with Kubernetes. The panel will discuss various scenarios to show how Rook configures Ceph to provide stable block, shared file system, and object storage for your production data. Rook was accepted as a graduated project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in October 2020.

Speakers

Subham Rai

Mr, IBM

I'm Subham Rai from India. I have more than 3 years of experience in software or more specifically in the storage industry working mainly in rook-ceph. I hold a B.tech degree and I'm also RHCSA certified. I have spoken at FOSDEM 2022, Cephalocon 2023(Amsterdam). I'm in the top 4... Read More →

Deepika Upadhyay

Ms, Clyso

I'm Deepika, a Ceph Engineer at Clyso I'm working on the Rook project. With over 5 COI Ro clusters for enterprises, particularly in the years in the Ceph community, I specialize in deploying large-scale Rook Ceph in containerized environments. My career started with Ceph Storage... Read More →

Nikhil Ladha

Software Engineer, IBM

Nikhil Ladha is a backend developer from India, working at IBM and has more than 4yrs of industry experience in the domain of storage, web and kubernetes.He is also an active open-source contributor and a maintainer of multiple open-source projects. He loves to travel and explore... Read More →

Nitin Goyal

Senior Backend Engineer, IBM/RedHat

As a valued member of the Red Hat/IBM Storage Team, I bring seven years of expertise to the forefront of Kubernetes development. Specializing in diverse operators such as Rook, LVM, OCS, and ODF, I have played a pivotal role in orchestrating seamless storage solutions. Beyond my contributions... Read More →

Rakshith R

Software Engineer, IBM India Pvt Ltd

Rakshith is a Software Engineer at IBM Storage Team. He is an active open source developer, top contributor at Rook and maintainer at CephCSI, CSI-Addons and External-snapshot-metadata sidecar projects. He has given multiple talks at conferences including Cephalocon and Ceph Days... Read More →

Thursday August 7, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm IST
MRG 1-6

Maintainer Track, Rook