What is Rook?
It is an open source cloud-native storage orchestrator for Kubernetes, providing the platform, framework, and support for a diverse set of storage solutions to natively integrate with cloud-native environments.
Rook is a tool in the Cloud Storage category of a tech stack.
Rook is an open source tool with 11.9K GitHub stars and 2.6K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Rook's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Rook?
Companies
10 companies reportedly use Rook in their tech stacks, including Gini, DevOPS and Infrastructure, and FEELWAY.
Developers
41 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Rook.
Rook Integrations
Pros of Rook
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Rook's Features
- Simple and reliable automated resource management
- Hyper-scale or hyper-converge your storage clusters
- Efficiently distribute and replicate data to minimize loss
- Provision, file, block, and object with multiple storage providers
Rook Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Rook?
ceph
In computing,It is a free-software storage platform, implements object storage on a single distributed computer cluster, and provides interfaces for object-, block- and file-level storage.
Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web
Google Cloud Storage
Google Cloud Storage allows world-wide storing and retrieval of any amount of data and at any time. It provides a simple programming interface which enables developers to take advantage of Google's own reliable and fast networking infrastructure to perform data operations in a secure and cost effective manner. If expansion needs arise, developers can benefit from the scalability provided by Google's infrastructure.
Azure Storage
Azure Storage provides the flexibility to store and retrieve large amounts of unstructured data, such as documents and media files with Azure Blobs; structured nosql based data with Azure Tables; reliable messages with Azure Queues, and use SMB based Azure Files for migrating on-premises applications to the cloud.
Amazon EBS
Amazon EBS volumes are network-attached, and persist independently from the life of an instance. Amazon EBS provides highly available, highly reliable, predictable storage volumes that can be attached to a running Amazon EC2 instance and exposed as a device within the instance. Amazon EBS is particularly suited for applications that require a database, file system, or access to raw block level storage.
