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title: Democratic CSI
description: Democratic CSI implements the csi (container storage interface) spec providing storage for various container orchestration systems.
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# Purpose

Storage provider for iSCSI block devices from the NAS.

# Notes

Used for applications that need to store a lot of data, but not over the NFS connection. Examples include metrics and logging storage.
