An illustrative method may include passing, by a container storage interface (CSI) filter driver, requests received by way of a node agent to a CSI driver associated with a storage system, the requests comprising requests for the CSI driver to perform control plane operations with respect to the storage system, wherein the node agent, the CSI filter driver, and the CSI filter all execute on a node of a cluster managed by a container orchestrator, and wherein the storage system is configured to store data associated with one or more containerized applications executing on the node; identifying, by the CSI filter driver based on the requests, attributes associated with the control plane operations; determining, by the CSI filter driver based on the attributes, a usage profile associated with the storage system; and performing, by the CSI filter driver based on the usage profile, an optimization operation.