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The Container Storage Interface (CSI) allows OpenShift Container Platform to consume storage from storage back ends that implement the CSI interface as persistent storage. See Configuring CSI volumes.
The CSI specification standardizes the exposure of block and file storage systems to workloads running on container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes. Kubernetes can be readily extended to support any storage solution with CSI drivers that the vendor provides. Vendors can use an operator to manage the life cycle of their drivers directly, without waiting until the next core Kubernetes release.
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