# Cloud Native Distributed Storage in Kubernetes with Longhorn

DevFeed: [Cloud Native Distributed Storage in Kubernetes with Longhorn](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/cloud-native-distributed-storage-in-kubernetes-with-longhorn-10594.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://technotim.com/posts/longhorn-install/>)

Author: Techno Tim

Published: 2021-01-02T14:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Techno Tim](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/techno-tim.md>)

Topics: [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [rancher](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rancher.md>)

Tags: [backups](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backups.md>), [cloud-native](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-native.md>), [disaster-recovery](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/disaster-recovery.md>), [distributed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed.md>), [install](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/install.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [quick-start](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/quick-start.md>), [rancher](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rancher.md>), [snapshots](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/snapshots.md>), [storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage.md>), [ui](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ui.md>), [volumes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/volumes.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial about using Longhorn, an open-source distributed block storage system for Kubernetes. It covers storage management on Kubernetes clusters, including volumes, backups, snapshots, and disaster recovery, with or without Rancher.

## Source excerpt

Storage in Kubernetes is hard, complicated, and messy.Configuring volumes, mounts, and persistent volumes claims and getting it right can be a challenge.It's also challenging to manage that storage and replicate it across all your Kubernetes clusters.It's also been very challenging to do this on bare metal, outside of a cloud provider.That's where Longhorn comes.Longhorn is an open source, a CN...