Hi, I'm the executive director of CNCF (which hosts Kubernetes) and the co-author of our landscape document, which has a section on storage [0].
I'll just state the obvious that you're very much correct about stateful storage still being the most immature aspect of the Kubernetes and cloud native story, but there are definitely tons of folks working on it. And in the meantime, people are succeeding in production using last-generation solutions on bare metal or provider offerings in the cloud.
I'll make a quick pitch that if you are a cloud native end user interested in engaging with the community, please email me about joining CNCF's end user board (my email is in my profile). We just dropped the price from $50 K to $4.5 K, and it now includes 5 tickets to CloudNativeCon/KubeCon ($1.7 K and 2 tickets for startups).
I'll just state the obvious that you're very much correct about stateful storage still being the most immature aspect of the Kubernetes and cloud native story, but there are definitely tons of folks working on it. And in the meantime, people are succeeding in production using last-generation solutions on bare metal or provider offerings in the cloud.
I'll make a quick pitch that if you are a cloud native end user interested in engaging with the community, please email me about joining CNCF's end user board (my email is in my profile). We just dropped the price from $50 K to $4.5 K, and it now includes 5 tickets to CloudNativeCon/KubeCon ($1.7 K and 2 tickets for startups).
[0] https://github.com/cncf/landscape