Foreword
concept
Block storage, file storage, object store
Distributed Storage
NAS Network Storage
Volume common type
awsElasticBlockStore
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is an easy to use high-performance data block storage service. EBS offers four different types of volumes, price and performance levels vary, so you can optimize the storage costs and purchase that best meet your application needs. GB range of options from each cost roll-to-designed for mission-critical workloads design with high performance and high throughput IOPS volume.
azureDisk
Azure disk is managed and hosted by a block-level storage volume Azure using the virtual machine with Azure. Managed disk similar to the local server's physical disk, but it is virtualization. When using the managed disk by specifying the size of the disk, disk types and disk provisioning to. Available disk types including super disk, advanced solid-state drive (SSD), standard SSD and standard hard disk drives (HDD). Information about each disk type, see Select the appropriate IaaS VM disk types .
azureFile
Azure is Microsoft launched file cloud file system. Azure provides a complete hosted file sharing in the cloud. Azure file share can be used to replace or supplement the local file server. You can use Azure file to completely replace or supplement the traditional local file server or NAS device. Popular operating systems (eg Windows, macOS and Linux) can be loaded directly Azure file sharing over the world.
cephfs
Ceph file system is a POSIX-compatible distributed file system. It uses the Ceph storage cluster to store data, Ceph clusters can be seen as a shared file system is mounted locally. Use cephfs in Kubernetes the need to install Ceph server.
glusterfs
Gluster is a scalable distributed file system, disk storage resources from multiple servers aggregated into a global namespace.
Further reading
[1] Amazon Elastic Block Store is easy to use, high performance block storage for any size of
[2] Azure hosting disk Introduction
[3] What is Azure file?