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Alternatives to Ceph for this use case
I only have experience with Ceph in the past (both normal setup and from Kubernetes with Rook). I am about to start a new project and I am wondering if there are any alternatives to Ceph these days that I should consider and that can run in Kubernetes.
Use case: regular storage, but due to the nature of the product the storage cluster would need to support reliably a high number of volumes (hundreds to thousands if the project takes off).
Also, the storage system must support both thin provisioning and volumes that can be automatically broken down into smaller parts distributed across the cluster depending on the size of the volume and the storage available on each node. i.e.: if say a volume is 50GB and the customer wants to purchase more storage to 100GB, but there isn't enough storage on the node that hosts the volume, I don't want to have to migrate the volume and things like that. With Ceph a volume can even be much larger than the total storage available on a single node.
So, is Ceph still the way to go in 2026 or is there something better/easier that you would recommend?
BTW I would mainly use block storage, but support for read-write-many volumes (shared filesystems) and object storage would be nice to have.
