Openstack

Explain Cinder in detail

Difficulty: unrated

Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

  • Cinder is OpenStack Block Storage service
    • It basically provides used with storage resources they can consume with other services such as Nova
    • One of the most used implementations of storage supported by Cinder is LVM
    • From user perspective this is transparent which means the user doesn't know where, behind the scenes, the storage is located or what type of storage is used