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Rook: Intro and Deep Dive With Ceph Storage - Parth Arora, IBM; Deepika Upadhyay, Clyso; Madhu Rajanna, Rewant Soni & Malay Parida, Red Hat
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:30pm - 6:00pm IST
204 (Level 2)
The Rook project will be introduced to attendees of all levels and experience. Rook is an open source cloud-native storage operator for Kubernetes, providing the platform, framework, and support for Ceph to natively integrate with Kubernetes. The panel will discuss various scenarios to show how Rook configures Ceph to provide stable block, shared file system, and object storage for your production data. Rook was accepted as a graduated project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in October 2020.
Speakers
avatar for Madhu Rajanna

Madhu Rajanna

Software Architect at IBM, IBM Germany Research & Development GmbH
Software Architect at IBM Storage on the OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) team. He is a maintainer of the Ceph-CSI and CSI-Addons and a reviewer of the Rook project.
avatar for Rewant Soni

Rewant Soni

Software Engineer, IBM


avatar for Malay Kumar Parida

Malay Kumar Parida

Software Engineer, IBM
Engineer at IBM Storage with 4+ years of experience working with the Data Foundation Team. I specialize in working on operators orchestrating Rook, CSI & Noobaa CRs.
avatar for parth arora

parth arora

Software Engineer, IBM
I am Parth Arora, a software developer specializing in distributed storage systems.
As a Maintainer and developer, I have extensive experience working with Rook, a cloud-native storage orchestrator that enables storage systems like Ceph to be run as a service on Kubernetes. I have contributed to the development of Rook and have worked on projects involving Ceph... Read More →
avatar for Deepika Upadhyay

Deepika Upadhyay

Ceph Engineer, Clyso
I'm Deepika, a Ceph Engineer at Clyso I'm working on the Rook project. With over 5 COI Ro clusters for enterprises, particularly in

the years in the Ceph community, I specialize in deploying large-scale Rook Ceph in containerized environments. My career started with Ceph Storage Engineering, focusing on RADOS and RBD. I'm passionate about driving innovation in Mopen-source storage solutions and find working i... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:30pm - 6:00pm IST
204 (Level 2)
  Maintainer Track, Rook

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