Cloud Storage FUSE and CSI driver now available for GKE

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) has seen a significant increase in the number of Kubernetes clusters running stateful applications since 2019.
To cater to the rise in AI/ML workloads and data on Kubernetes, Google has introduced Cloud Storage FUSE for machine learning.
With this, objects in Cloud Storage buckets can be accessed as files mounted as a local file system offering a frictionless experience for applications.
The new Cloud Storage FUSE Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver on GKE allows Kubernetes applications to mount cloud storage buckets as local file systems, providing portability, massive scale, and built-in support for GKE Standard and Autopilot.
The Cloud Storage FUSE CSI driver eliminates the need for privileged access and supports all accelerators available on GKE.
This feature enables ML training, inference models, reading and checkpointing, and Python-based third-party data apps, among others.

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