Longhorn is a distributed block storage system for Kubernetes. Longhorn is cloud native storage because it is built using Kubernetes and container primitives.
Longhorn is lightweight, reliable, and powerful. You can install Longhorn on an existing Kubernetes cluster with one `kubectl apply` command or using Helm charts. Once Longhorn is installed, it adds persistent volume support to the Kubernetes cluster.
Longhorn implements distributed block storage using containers and microservices. Longhorn creates a dedicated storage controller for each block device volume and synchronously replicates the volume across multiple replicas stored on multiple nodes. The storage controller and replicas are themselves orchestrated using Kubernetes. Here are some notable features of Longhorn:
The latest release of Longhorn is [](https://github.com/longhorn/longhorn/releases)
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### Longhorn Mailing List
Stay up to date on the latest news and events: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-longhorn
You can read more about the community and its events here: https://github.com/longhorn/community
| Longhorn Backing Image Manager | Backing image download, sync, and deletion in a disk | [longhorn/backing-image-manager](https://github.com/longhorn/backing-image-manager) |
Longhorn is open source software, so contributions are greatly welcome.
Please read [Code of Conduct](./CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) and [Contributing Guideline](./CONTRIBUTING.md) before contributing.
Contributing code is not the only way of contributing. We value feedbacks very much and many of the Longhorn features are originated from users' feedback.
If you have any feedbacks, feel free to [file an issue](https://github.com/longhorn/longhorn/issues/new/choose) and talk to the developers at the [CNCF](https://slack.cncf.io/) [#longhorn](https://cloud-native.slack.com/messages/longhorn) Slack channel.
If having any discussion, feedbacks, requests, issues or security reports, please follow below ways.
We also have a [CNCF Slack channel: longhorn](https://cloud-native.slack.com/messages/longhorn) for discussion.
## Discussions or Feedbacks
If having any discussions or feedbacks, feel free to [file a discussion](https://github.com/longhorn/longhorn/discussions).
## Requests or Issues
If having any issues, feel free to [file an issue](https://github.com/longhorn/longhorn/issues/new/choose).
We have a weekly community issue review meeting to review all reported issues or enhancement requests.
When creating a bug issue, please help upload the support bundle to the issue or send to
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