April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
468 pages
14h 34m
English
FlexVolume provides out-of-tree plugin capability, but it still requires the FlexVolume plugin itself and a somewhat cumbersome installation and invocation model. The CSI will improve on it significantly by having the vendor implement it directly. The best thing about it is that you, as a developer, don't have to create and maintain those plugins. It is the responsibility of the storage solution provider to implement and maintain the CSI, and it's in their interest to make it as robust as possible so that people don't choose a different storage solution that works out of the box on Kubernetes (and other platforms that integrate with CSI).
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