AWS introduces CSI Driver for Amazon FSx for OpenZFS

The Amazon FSx for OpenZFS Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver is now available as an open-source project. The CSI driver makes it easy for developers to use Amazon FSx for OpenZFS with their Kubernetes containers running on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) or on self-managed Kubernetes clusters running on Amazon EC2.

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS provides fully managed, cost-effective, shared file storage powered by the popular OpenZFS file system, and is designed to deliver sub-millisecond latencies and up to 10 GB/s of throughput along with rich ZFS-powered data management capabilities (like snapshots, data cloning, and compression). Previously, customers wanting to run stateful workloads on their Kubernetes clusters with FSx for OpenZFS needed to manually provision the file systems, connect them to their Kubernetes pods, and maintain the connection as the service scaled and changed. With the FSx for OpenZFS CSI driver, they can dynamically provision and mount an FSx for OpenZFS file system to containers, so that their containerized workloads can natively access and process data stored in the file system. They can use the CSI driver to mount and share the FSx file system across multiple pods from different nodes.

The Amazon FSx for OpenZFS CSI driver is available today in all regions where FSx for OpenZFS is available.

To get started visit the project pages on GitHub: Amazon FSx for OpenZFS CSI Driver. For a walkthrough, visit the user guide at Using the FSx for OpenZFS CSI Driver with Amazon EKS.