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Cinder

Last updated May 16, 2025, generated by Sumble

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What is Cinder?

Cinder is an open-source block storage service project in OpenStack. It provides persistent block storage volumes for virtual machines and other compute resources. Cinder allows users to create, attach, and manage block devices, similar to physical hard drives, within a cloud environment. It supports various storage backends, including Ceph, NetApp, and others, enabling flexibility in storage infrastructure choices.

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What other technologies are related to Cinder?

Cinder Competitor Technologies

Ceph is a distributed storage system that can provide block storage functionality, competing with Cinder.

mentioned alongside Cinder in 2% (126) of relevant job posts

VMware offers its own storage solutions, which compete with Cinder in cloud environments.

mentioned alongside Cinder in 0% (94) of relevant job posts

GCP offers its own cloud storage solutions (Persistent Disk), which compete with Cinder in cloud environments.

mentioned alongside Cinder in 0% (67) of relevant job posts

Azure offers its own cloud storage solutions (Azure Disk Storage), which compete with Cinder in cloud environments.

mentioned alongside Cinder in 0% (65) of relevant job posts

Cinder Complementary Technologies

Neutron provides networking for OpenStack, allowing Cinder volumes to be accessed by instances.

mentioned alongside Cinder in 48% (299) of relevant job posts

Glance provides image management for OpenStack, which can be used in conjunction with Cinder volumes.

mentioned alongside Cinder in 53% (232) of relevant job posts

Nova is the compute service for OpenStack, utilizing Cinder for block storage.

mentioned alongside Cinder in 21% (307) of relevant job posts

Which job functions mention Cinder?

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Jobs mentioning Cinder

Orgs mentioning Cinder

Engineering & R&D

0% (274) job posts

2 organizations

Engineer

0% (265) job posts

33 organizations

Cloud Engineer

0% (39) job posts

12 organizations

DevOps Engineer

0% (38) job posts

17 organizations

Cloud Architect

0% (15) job posts

10 organizations

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