What do you think about Rancher Longhorn distributed block storage solution? about guide

[pstadler]

Portworx works well enough for the time being, but it is proprietary software. Any potential alternative should match the following criteria besides being reliable:

• Dynamic volume provisioning using a PersistentVolumeClaim
• Deployment as a DaemonSet (no configuration/scripts outside of the manifest)
• Painless operations (preferably running within a single pod)
• Open source or a proprietary solution better than the current one

Longhorn could indeed be an alternative if they integrate better with Kubernetes.

[pstadler]

I'm currently evaluating Rook, means it's running on my cluster for a couple of weeks. So far so good! Discussions going on here: hobby-kube/manifests#1

As soon as I find the time, I'm most likely going to update the guide to recommend using Rook. Mostly because it's an open source solution, offers straight forward setup and seems pretty robust.