IDG Contributor Network: CoreOS takes on container storage with Torus project

CoreOS, makers of the open-source lightweight operating system by the same name, has launched an open source project called Torus that aims to deal with some of the storage challenges of containers.
Torus is a fully open source distributed storage system that  provides storage primitives to containers and cluster orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.
It's not that there aren't any legacy storage solutions that can be used with container infrastructure; there are. But they kind of cre