Live at KubeCon 2026: Kubernetes Storage, Portworx & OpenShift

from Cloud Native Chronicles · host Johan van Amersfoort and Sander Harrewijnen

Recorded live at KubeCon 2026, Johan van Amersfoort (Chief Evangelist and AI Lead at ITQ) sits down with Erik Zandboer (Cloud Native Architect at Portworx) to explore one of the biggest challenges in Kubernetes: stateful workloads and storage.While Kubernetes has become the standard for container orchestration, it was never designed for stateful applications. So what happens when organizations start running databases, AI workloads, and business critical applications on Kubernetes?From scaling limitations of CSI to disaster recovery, hybrid cloud storage, and AI driven architectures, this episode breaks down how platforms like Portworx extend Kubernetes to support real world workloads.In this episode they discuss:Why Kubernetes struggles with stateful workloadsThe limitations of CSI and when they become visibleHow Portworx enables scalable, Kubernetes native storageThe role of OpenShift as a broader developer platformStorage architectures for AI workloads (block vs object storage)Disaster recovery and multi cluster replicationHow abstraction layers improve performance and flexibility across environments👉 Learn more about ITQ Cloud Native: https://itq.eu/cloud-native

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