Cinder- It's Not Just for Secondary Attached Storage Any More!
Channel: OpenInfra Foundation
Date: 10/05/2017

Cinder is pretty prevalent as secondary (attached storage) for Nova Instances. What most people don't think about though is that it's also in many cases well suited for other uses in and out of the OpenStack eco system. This talk will focus on lesser known ways to use Cinder for all of the various storage needs in an OpenStack Cloud. We'll use Cinder not only for secondary block storage, but also for storage of their ephemeral Nova Instances and even Glance images. I'll go through the pros a