How to integrate heterogeneous storage in a cloud native environment has always been a challenge. In this session, we will discuss how to use Cinder, the block storage as a service project in OpenStack, and OpenSDS, an open source project under Linux Foundation, to provision, manage, and protect persistent storage for the Kubernetes cluster. Specifically the following will be discussed: How OpenSDS utilizes the standalone and containerized Cinder through a CSI (Container Storage Interface) plu