Infinit's historical platform aimed to turn storage across machines into a configurable shared system, with interfaces for different application needs. Its peer-to-peer design distributed responsibility between participants rather than relying on one central storage node. It is useful to understand that model when recovering an inherited installation and identifying how applications access its data. This review has not established a supported modern Kubernetes driver or deployment, so the preserved design is not an adoption recommendation.
Current guidance
The recovered entry identifies Infinit’s decentralized storage platform. Its surviving infinit/infinit repository describes software-defined, peer-to-peer storage with several intended file, object and block interfaces. Those design claims are historical project documentation, not a compatibility matrix for a present-day Kubernetes cluster.
This review did not establish a current supported image, CSI driver, release policy or officially designated successor. Do not replace the package with a similarly named storage product or assume that an old Docker-era integration implements current Kubernetes volume behavior. First identify whether an existing system exposes FUSE, NFS, an object endpoint or another interface, and where its authoritative data and credentials actually live.
Before migration, produce an independently readable export and verify checksums or application-level consistency on a restore. Evaluate a replacement against the interface and recovery requirements: access modes, failure-domain placement, capacity growth and node-loss behavior. Replication claims alone are not backup evidence. Keep the original Infinit deployment isolated from storage experiments until a verified recovery copy exists and the replacement has demonstrated the required data semantics.
Historical upstream link check · 2026-10-09
Automated availability verification was inconclusive on 2026-10-09 (connection or verification failure). Link availability does not certify the historical installation instructions or current security support.
Website availability is separate from project, chart and image support. Use the current guidance and primary sources on this page to assess the distribution.
Historical Kubedex content
Original publication: 2018-09-22T08:32:51+00:00. Preserved for context. Commands, versions, prices and results below reflect the original research.
Infinit is a next generation storage platform that has been designed with scalability and resilience in mind. Infinit is particularly well suited for modern environments such as containers that require the storage component to be highly customizable:
- Software-based: can be deployed on any hardware from legacy appliances to commodity bare metal, virtual machines or even containers.
- Programmatic: developers can easily automate the creation and deployment of multiple storage infrastructure, each tailored to the overlying application’s needs through policy-based capabilities.
- Scalable: by relying on a decentralized architecture (i.e peer-to-peer), Infinit does away with the master/slave model, hence does not suffer from bottlenecks and single points of failure.
- Self Healing: Infinit’s rebalancing mechanism allows for the system to adapt to various types of failures, including Byzantine.
- Multi-Purpose: the Infinit platform provides interfaces for block, object and file storage: NFS, SMB, AWS S3, OpenStack Swift, iSCSI, FUSE etc.
Unfortunately, there is no native Kubernetes integration yet although the roadmap shows this is planned for 2018. Until then you can experiment with Infinit on Docker and OSX.
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