Category: Kubernetes Storage

Trying to configure persistent Kubernetes storage options comes with its issues and challenges. Although the official storage docs are quite extensive, they only cover a fraction of the specific configurations… Read More

When you’re studying Kubernetes, one of the first things you learn is that it won’t handle any storage requests for your applications when deploying a new cluster by default. This… Read More

If your organization is building out a microservice-based architecture, then you’re probably intimately familiar with Kubernetes. The ability to rapidly scale services up and down is one of Kubernetes’s top… Read More

MayaData Director is a remote SaaS management plane to provision and maintain OpenEBS persistent storage for your microservices running on Kubernetes. Prerequisites: Platform9 Freedom Plan (a free tier account is… Read More

by Peter Fray (Platform9) and Alessandro Catale (Comfone) There are plenty of articles describing how to setup MongoDB with a Kubernetes operator. However, is Kubernetes a viable solution for running… Read More

In this article, you will learn how to set up OpenEBS on Kubernetes clusters, as a storage solution for your deployment using a free Platform9 Kubernetes account. OpenEBS is one… Read More

In this article, you will learn how to set up Rook to manage Ceph within Kubernetes using a free Platform9 Managed Kubernetes account. Rook is an open-source, cloud-native solution, that delivers… Read More

One of the benefits of moving to Kubernetes is that your applications can run in a highly scalable environment. You can add additional pods quickly if you suddenly need more… Read More

In the previous article, we deep-dived into the constructs of Kubernetes storage, and what the different types of storage are good for. We discussed dynamic provisioning, StorageClasses, and CSI external… Read More