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In a previous post, we hopefully covered the why and where the CSI has come from and where it is going and the benefits that come with having an industry-standard interface by enabling storage vendors to develop a plugin once and have it work across a number of container orchestration systems. The reason for this post is to highlight how to install the driver and enable volume snapshots, the driver itself is still in the beta phase, and the volume snapshot is in the alpha phase, alpha phase software is not supported within Amazon EKS clusters. The driver is well tested and supported in AmazonRead More →

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Some may say that Kubernetes is built for only stateless workloads but one thing we have seen over the last 18-24 months is an increase in those stateful workloads, think your databases, messaging queues and batch processing functions all requiring some state to be consistent and work. Some people will also believe that these states should land outside the cluster but can be consumed by the stateless workloads ran within the Kubernetes cluster. The people have spoken In this post, we are going to briefly talk about the storage options available in Kubernetes and then spend some time on the Container Storage Initiative / InterfaceRead More →

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My big project over the last month has not only been getting up to speed around Kubernetes but has had a parallel effort around Kubernetes storage and an open-source project that has been developed and today is released. In this post we are going to touch on how to get going with Kubestr, the first thing to mention is that this is a handy set of tools to help you identify, validate, and evaluate your Kubernetes storage. The Challenge The challenge we have with Kubernetes storage is that it’s not all that easy and it’s very manual to achieve some of the tasks that KubestrRead More →