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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.

Cloud Native / Data / Kubernetes / Monitoring / Storage

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Culture / Edge / IoT / Storage

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Storage

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Containers / Storage

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Containers / Kubernetes / Storage

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Cloud Native / Containers / Kubernetes / Microservices / Security / Storage

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Storage

Microsoft Prepped Windows Server 2016 for Ultra-Fast Persistent Storage

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API Management / Cloud Native / Development / Serverless / Storage

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Culture / Storage

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Storage

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4 Oct 2016 10:43am, by Susan Hall

Kubernetes / Storage

Running Stateful Applications in Kubernetes: Storage Provisioning and Allocation

3 Oct 2016 8:28am, by Janakiram MSV

Cloud Native / Cloud Services / Data / Kubernetes / Machine Learning / Storage

BOSH Hooks Cloud Foundry into the Google Cloud Platform, Offers Large-Scale VM Lifecycle Management

27 Sep 2016 10:45am, by Joab Jackson

Storage / Sponsored

How Software-Defined Storage Impacts Containers

27 Sep 2016 9:08am, by Kiran Oliver

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

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Containers / Networking / Security / Storage

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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

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