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Storage has proven to be a bit of a challenge when setting up cloud native architectures. Perhaps the difficulty could be traced to one vital tenet: that all computing nodes (a container, say, or even serverless API) should be stateless. This means very simply that the node should not be keeping any data, either for long-term storage, or even for routing purposes. The reasoning is that a node can be moved anywhere at a moment’s notice, or be replicated.

So all storage must be somewhere else. But how does the compute node know where all its data is at? Plus, given that these workloads are distributed, the response times of these storage systems must be super low. These are the problems tackled by Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). Cloud service providers can ease developers’ tasks with automated cloud storage services, hiding some of the complexity where developers’ actions are not needed.

The major cloud providers — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — all provide storage options that cut the need for separate storage administration, at least the kind that involves both hardware and software. If you want more independence, look for a scale-out storage package such as one from Portworx, Minio, or NetApp.

At The New Stack, we will keep an eye on the CSPs, as well as work going on around scale-out storage, or storage systems that can be expanded without reorganization or help from a storage admin, really. The Red Hat-managed open source Ceph falls into this bucket, for instance.

Containers / Kubernetes / Storage

Strategies for Running Stateful Applications in Kubernetes: Volumes

26 Sep 2016 12:53pm, by Janakiram MSV

Containers / Data / Kubernetes / Storage

Managing Persistence for Docker Containers

23 Sep 2016 7:38am, by Janakiram MSV

CI/CD / Containers / Monitoring / Networking / Security / Storage

Containerized Production Environments: Networking, Security, and Storage

22 Sep 2016 1:01pm, by Vivek Juneja

Cloud Native / Edge / IoT / Storage

HPE Computing for the Future: The Cloud, The Edge, and The Machine

7 Sep 2016 7:32am, by Scott M. Fulton III

CI/CD / Containers / Culture / Edge / IoT / Storage

Five Things Going on with Red Hat’s Project Atomic

1 Sep 2016 9:24am, by Susan Hall

Containers / Kubernetes / Storage

What Docker’s Built-In Orchestration Could Mean for Kubernetes

29 Aug 2016 11:39am, by Kiran Oliver

Cloud Native / Storage

VMworld 2016: VMware Scrambles for the Foundation

29 Aug 2016 6:38am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Culture / Edge / IoT / Security / Storage

Researchers Use WiFi Waves to Identify People

28 Aug 2016 7:30am, by Kimberley Mok

Containers / Networking / Security / Storage

Networking, Security and Storage for Docker and Containers: Our Ebook is Here

23 Aug 2016 7:04am, by Benjamin Ball

Data / Storage

Red Hat JBoss Data Grid is Not Just for Caching Java Objects Anymore

15 Aug 2016 7:52am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Containers / Data / Storage / Sponsored

How Joyent Manta Aims to Simplify Object Storage at Scale

9 Aug 2016 9:12am, by Kiran Oliver

Storage

DigitalOcean Launches Block Storage Service for Storage-Hungry Cloud Users

13 Jul 2016 6:00am, by Joab Jackson

Cloud Services / Storage

NextCloud Revives ownCloud’s Open Source Cloud Storage Software

13 Jul 2016 4:41am, by Dawn Foster

Cloud Services / Containers / Kubernetes / Storage

Red Hat: ‘The Race to Own the Container Market is On’

29 Jun 2016 8:51am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Culture / Storage

Air Force Scrambles to Recover 100,000 Lost Data Files

19 Jun 2016 8:15am, by David Cassel

Containers / Storage

With libStorage, EMC Offers an Alternative to Docker’s Persistent Storage Volumes

3 Jun 2016 8:54am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Kubernetes / Microservices / Storage / Contributed

CoreOS Launches a Kubernetes-Friendly Storage System: Torus

1 Jun 2016 11:32am, by Joab Jackson

Containers / Data / Monitoring / Storage

Pachyderm Challenges Hadoop with Containerized Data Lakes

10 May 2016 7:42am, by Susan Hall

Open Source / Storage

DNA: The Long-term Data Storage Format that Will Never Go Obsolete

24 Apr 2016 9:20pm, by Joab Jackson

Cloud Native / Development / Open Source / Storage

Converging Storage: CephFS Now Production Ready

21 Apr 2016 1:51pm, by Joab Jackson

DevOps / Storage / Sponsored

Four Companies Set the Stage for Programmable Infrastructure

19 Apr 2016 12:54pm, by Kiran Oliver

Storage / Sponsored

The New Stack @ Scale Podcast, Show 7: ClusterHQ and the Science of Scaling

29 Mar 2016 5:17pm, by Joab Jackson

Containers / Data / Kubernetes / Microservices / Storage

Crate Built a Distributed SQL Database System To Run Within Containers

16 Mar 2016 11:11am, by Susan Hall

Cloud Services / Storage

Google Cloud Offers POSIX-Compliant File Storage Through Red Hat Gluster

18 Feb 2016 9:05am, by Swapnil Bhartiya

Cloud Native / Storage

How Speedy Solid State Storage May Radically Change Application Development

29 Jan 2016 5:31pm, by Joab Jackson

Culture / Edge / IoT / Security / Storage

Password-Dispensing Banana Pushed Into Production

23 Jan 2016 6:50am, by David Cassel

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