Abstract: An example method for prioritizing deployment of nodes in a cluster comprises: determining, at a first time and by a first node of a plurality of nodes in a cluster of a distributed storage system, that a second node having a higher priority than the first node is in a startup phase of the second node; determining, at a second time subsequent to the first time and by the first node, that the second node has completed the startup phase of the second node; and initiating, based on the determining that the second node has completed the startup phase and by the first node, a startup phase of the first node.

Abstract: An example method for dynamically adjusting an I/O stack of a distributed storage system comprises determining, by a container storage management system, an excess of input/output (I/O) requests to a node of a container system; and adjusting, by the container storage management system and based on the determining the excess, a parameter associated with the node to reduce the excess of the I/O requests.

Abstract: An example method for dynamic determination of locks for prioritized deployment in a distributed storage system comprises providing, by a storage management system, N locks to a cluster of a distributed storage system, the cluster including a plurality of nodes and the N locks allowing N nodes of the plurality of nodes to each initiate a startup phase during a first time window, wherein N is a number greater than zero; tracking, by the storage management system, application programming interface (API) calls made by the N nodes to a platform of the cluster during the first time window; and providing, by the storage management system based on the tracking, M locks to the cluster, the M locks allowing M nodes of the plurality of nodes to each initiate a startup phase during a second time window subsequent to the first time window, wherein M is a number greater than zero.