Virtuozzo Storage for Kubernetes Expands Storage for Containers

Virtuozzo announced the availability of tits Storage for Kubernetes.

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This solution solves persistent storage selection problems for cloud native environments and applications for Kubernetes (K8s) production deployments. A software-defined storage solution that runs on commodity hardware, Storage for Kubernetes provides container-friendly storage with native integration and simplified deployment and management. The firm’s latest application container storage solution for K8s adds to to its existing solution for Docker containers, which received Docker EE certification in June, providing persistent storage support for popular containerization platforms.

The company’s Storage for Kubernetes is built on top of the firm’s software-defined storage solution and runs in K8s environments, enabled by three key integrations:

• Storage provisioner – Provides dynamic volume provisioning based on pre-configured storage classes that contain all the requirements for a particular volume.

• Snapshot controller – Implements the K8s 1.7 aggregation API and provides snapshotting functionality for K8s volumes.

• Storage FlexVolume driver – Provides mount volumes on K8s nodes.

The Storage for Kubernetes is centered around providing flexible and intuitive management tools, based upon a designed and tested management panel UI. This allows users to monitor and manage storage clusters and additional storage services (like iSCASI targets and object storage), while also enabling them to control K8s native storage-related objects and define storage classes and automatic snapshotting policies.

“As application containers surge toward mainstream adoption, storage in production environments has proved challenging for users of the major containerization platforms, especially across dynamic multi-server deployments,” said George Karidis, CEO, Virtuozzo. “With our latest Virtuozzo Storage for Kubernetes solution, we’re delivering a tightly integrated, production-ready solution for K8s that makes it very easy for any enterprise, small business or service provider to put containerized apps into production.“

Persistent storage for containers
The company’s storage is a software-defined solution that enables users to build fault-tolerant, multi-machine storage clusters using off-the-shelf hardware. It works with any workload or type of data, including block, file, object and container storage. It delivers a flexible, available distributed storage solution that scales, comes with built-in replication to ensure the safety of data and features erasure coding to drive maximum efficiency.

Additional features and benefits of Storage for Kubernetes include:

• Integration with K8s Storage Management Model – Enables cluster connections through native K8s secrets and snapshots management via a native API aggregation.

• Simple configuration – Assign storage classes in two clicks with configuration options for volumes available for storage classes.

• Snapshot support – Provides added data protection with scheduling and policy management.

• Fault-tolerant by design – Flexible redundancy schemas for storage, as well as a available control plane ensure that infrastructure is still manageable after a node failure.

• Cluster deployment and scaling – Deploy and manage clusters using a set of simple actions.

Resources:
Virtuozzo Storage for Kubernetes
Virtuozzo Storage for Kubernetes Whitepaper
Storage for Application Containers Solution Brief
Virtuozzo Storage