RookWhat 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 Infrastructure as a Service category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Simple and reliable automated resource managementHyper-scale or hyper-converge your storage clustersEfficiently distribute and replicate data to minimize lossProvision, file, block, and object with multiple storage providers
Rook Pros & Cons
Pros of Rook
- ✓Minio Integration
- ✓Open Source
Cons of Rook
- ✗Ceph is difficult
- ✗Slow
Rook Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Rook?
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.
