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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.

Kubernetes / Storage / Sponsored

How T-Mobile Deployed Portworx for Flexible Storage

8 Jan 2019 11:02am, by TNS Staff

Cloud Native / Cloud Services / Storage

Cloud Storage Services for Cloud Native Applications

28 Dec 2018 9:00am, by Jean Bozman

Cloud Native / Storage

Enterprise Storage Providers Address Cloud Native Operations

27 Dec 2018 9:52am, by Maxwell Cooter

Cloud Native / Containers / Microservices / Storage

How Storage Software Layers Facilitate Cloud Native Development

26 Dec 2018 11:29am, by Emily Omier

Kubernetes / Storage / Sponsored

Portworx CTO Gou Rao: PX-Enterprise 2.0 Followed the ‘Big Shift’ to the Cloud

4 Dec 2018 12:10pm, by B. Cameron Gain

Containers / Storage

Portworx: Multicloud Now a Chief Driver for Containers

4 Dec 2018 10:37am, by Lawrence E Hecht

Storage

Linux Foundation Launches a Foundation for the Ceph File System

12 Nov 2018 9:01am, by Mike Melanson

Cloud Native / Kubernetes / Storage

NetApp Goes Cloud Native with StackPointCloud Acquisition

16 Oct 2018 1:49pm, by Joab Jackson

Storage / Contributed

Surprise! Developers Are Leading the Next Storage Evolution

27 Sep 2018 6:00am, by Irshad Raihan

Microservices / Storage

Why Microservices Require a Storage Rethink

22 Aug 2018 6:00am, by B. Cameron Gain

Cloud Native / Storage

This Week on The New Stack: Cloud-Native Storage and the OpenStack Summit

25 May 2018 4:55pm, by Libby Clark

Kubernetes / Storage

Kubernetes and the Challenge of Adding Persistent Storage

24 May 2018 6:00am, by B. Cameron Gain

Storage / Contributed

Software-Defined Storage or Hyperconverged Infrastructure?

21 May 2018 1:50pm, by Kiran Sreenivasamurthy

Storage

Ben Golub: From Storage to Docker and Back to Storage but Now with Blockchain

16 Apr 2018 2:44pm, by Alex Williams

Data / Storage / Contributed

Dense Memcached with Nonvolatile Memory

25 Mar 2018 3:00am, by Siddharth Choudhuri

Kubernetes / Storage

MapR’s Data Platform Provides a Persistent Storage Layer for Kubernetes

22 Mar 2018 3:00am, by B. Cameron Gain

Kubernetes / Security / Storage / Contributed

Single Sign-On for Kubernetes: An Introduction

9 Mar 2018 9:06am, by Joel Speed

Data / Storage

Instagram Supercharges Cassandra with a Pluggable RocksDB Storage Engine

5 Mar 2018 11:06am, by Joab Jackson

Monitoring / Storage

Honeycomb Adds Tiered Storage to Reduce Cost of Greater Performance Data Granularity

1 Mar 2018 8:46am, by Susan Hall

Containers / Kubernetes / Networking / Storage

Diamanti Offers a Plug-and-Play Kubernetes Deployment

5 Feb 2018 3:00am, by Susan Hall

Cloud Native / Containers / Kubernetes / Storage

STORK: Open Source Storage Intelligence for Kubernetes

2 Feb 2018 6:00am, by Susan Hall

Cloud Native / Storage

CNCF’s Rook Project Brings Storage Capability to Cloud-Native Workloads

29 Jan 2018 11:47am, by TNS Staff

Culture / Development / Open Source / Storage

Setting Core Values for the IT Industry

18 Jan 2018 1:02pm, by TC Currie

Containers / Kubernetes / Storage

CSI, the Container Community, and Kubernetes

16 Jan 2018 4:06pm, by Kiran Oliver

Cloud Native / Kubernetes / Storage / Contributed

The 8 Principles of Cloud Native Storage

15 Jan 2018 1:00pm, by Cheryl Hung

Containers / Kubernetes / Security / Storage / Contributed

All the Fun in Kubernetes 1.9

9 Jan 2018 9:00am, by Dan Garfield

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