Hosted Control Planes (HCP) enable efficient multi-tenant Kubernetes deployments, but managing storage within each HCP cluster can be resource-intensive and operationally complex. This talk demonstrates a practical pattern: deploying the Ceph CSI Operator on lightweight HCP clusters to consume storage from a centralized Rook-managed Ceph cluster running on dedicated HCI (Hyperconverged Infrastructure) nodes.

We'll show:
- Why separating storage and compute makes sense for HCP architectures
- Quick overview of Ceph CSI Operator vs full Rook deployment
- Setting up Ceph CSI Operator on an HCP cluster
- Connecting to external Rook-managed Ceph storage on HCI
- Live demo: Provisioning PVCs on HCP using remote Ceph storage
- Benefits: reduced resource overhead, centralized storage management, simplified operations

Perfect for platform engineers exploring efficient storage patterns for multi-tenant HCP environments. Attendees will learn a practical, production-ready approach to providing persistent storage to HCP clusters without the overhead of running full storage infrastructure in each cluster.