Reflecting on DockerCon17
With the sold out DockerCon17 over it is time to reflect on the week. The weather was certainly nice and Austin is always a great place to visit but I am proud that we were gold sponsors of this important event and able to participate in, and contribute to, the energy. I sensed a lot of excitement, noted that the ecosystem is dynamic and evolving fast and felt that containers are on the cusp of really taking off.
The time is now to begin or expand on your container strategy
Today, Veritas enters the container storage ecosystem with the announcement of a new open source software solution that allows customers to package applications in “containers” for portability as well as gain predictable and consistent performance, through policies.Read the announcement!Predictable performance with containerized applications
Its time containers prove their worth with stateful applications. The persistent storage for containers has to be as dynamic and mobile as the containerized applications themselves. The storage should be as predictable as traditional storage (SAN/NAS based) while being as agile as containers themselves.Container Webinar This Week
The IT sphere is abuzz with excitement regarding microservices and containers. We certainly saw the interest in this hot trend at our recent Veritas Vision 2016 event in Las Vegas where John Willis (@botchagalupe) from Docker presented a very informative session. Practitioners worldwide are attracted by the promise containers hold for enabling their DevOps ambitions. My colleague, Chad Thibodeau (@cthibodeau2) will be helping present a webinar this week that will explain containers, implications for storage management and discuss key takeaways from DockerCon 2016 that was held in Seattle.
Veritas Storage Services for Containers: Pull & Run
NOTE: This is a tecnology preview demo In this demo I am going to show you how simple is to provide persistent storage for containers using Veritas Storage Services. This simplicity needs to be aligned to the agility provided by Docker to deploy new applications in seconds. Storage management cannot prevent that agility, and that needs to start with the deployment and configuration itself. With Veritas Storage Services for Containers, all the storage management enterprise capabilities are provided within a container format. This is what we call pull & run. Customers only need to pull the image from the repository and run it on their servers. This is just a two-step process, where the image, once it is run, will create a storage cluster with other images in order to provide resiliency and visibility of the data. When running Docker Swarm to start services, data locality is no longer an issue as Veritas Storage Services will automatically provide the access to the persistent data from any node. You can directly interact yourself with this new technical preview during our VISION 2016 Conference at the Aria Resort in Las Vegas by attending the Hands-on Lab Datacenters in a box via containerized applications, and learn not only how to provide persistent storage but how to create a Docker Swarm, how drain containers from nodes with independence of storage location and how to create resiliency configurations that survive node failures. Also attend the session where Chad Tibodeau and I will be talking about Veritas vision to confidently transition to containers and stop by the pod to see more demos and interact with new features. Hope to see you in Vegas. Safe travels! Watch de Demo Carlos & Chad.Docker Persistent Storage: From Laptop to the Cloud
Persistent Storage for Containers is just another service that should be available via Docker images. The same agility, control and portability that containers provide should be available when using storage, no matter that storage is your local disk drive at your laptop or your new shiny flash array.Say Goodbye to the Noisy Neighbor when Using Docker
One of the major challenges with any kind of virtualization is to have the ability to provide enough and consistent performance to the different applications that will be running. When Virtual Machines emerged, we started seeing problems at the storage layer termed as the Noisy Neighbor problem.12 - Docker Persistent Storage and Quality of Service with Next Generation InfoScale Storage Solutions
DISCLAIMER: Quality of Service (QoS) feature is not available in the current version of the GA product. NOTE: QoS is now available with InfoScale 7.1. This article contains more up to date information
