Container Storage Environments in OpenEBS for Kubernetes and Microservices Deployments

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Tracing, logging, monitoring are all getting re-invented with the advent of container-native environments, said Evan Powell on this episode of InApps Technology Makers. The force of re-invention is also running through the storage and management layers with new thinking about the concept of container storage.

Powell is CEO of MayaData, formerly CloudByte. MayaData is behind OpenEBS, an open source container storage environment that allows every workload and storage team to have its own controller. The company has about 75 engineers, mostly out of Bangalore, India. MayaData has a similar strategy to companies like MongoDB, which fostered an open source project and with that as its base built a commercial SaaS platform.

MayaOnline is a free platform that gives developers a view into their OpenEBS or Kubernetes stateful workload environments. MayaOnline gives developers views into how systems are behaving. For Maya, the service can see the clickstreams, giving a view into how developers are using the service.

Powell comes out of the storage industry. It astounds him how the industry so missed the mark by focusing so much on provisioning the storage environment to anticipate the workloads running on the infrastructure. State will increasingly be used on an as-needed basis by the developers. Stateful applications get locked in to cloud services as they are monolithic in nature. Providers have for some time made billions by selling on-premises storage that is used to manage workloads by operations teams. Developers were not viewed as the buyer. Now the developer is building out more sophisticated applications and will increasingly use microservices with containers. The historical methods for developers to use on-premises storage do not apply in container-native architectures. There’s now the need for emerging environments that provide workloads and storage teams to have much more granularity. OpenEBS describes it as using microservices to deploy storage using containers as the delivery mechanism across clusters and cloud services.

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