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Storing container images is a great use case for an object store, not a block store. They should get sucked down whole to ephemeral storage on the compute nodes.

Mounting containers to a distributed block system is an anti-pattern. This is going to go poorly.

Ceph has had some really smart people working on distributed block for a lot of years, and they still have significant issues. It's not because they're dumb, it's because performant, scalable, and available distributed block is either hard or impossible.




This is about providing data volumes to containers, not about hosting container images or mounting containers themselves.




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