Service Orchestrator From Pure Storage

Pure Storage, Inc. announced the availability of Pure Service Orchestrator, which delivers container storage-as-a-service to empower IT and developers as they deploy container-based, microservices applications.

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Service Orchestrator equips customers with effortless, self-managed storage that drives data centric architecture with public cloud-like agility on-premises, backed by all-flash speed and enterprise reliability.

With Service Orchestrator, enterprises can support dynamic containerized environments by consuming storage-as-a-service for containerized, persistent applications on Shared Accelerated Storage infrastructure. This enables customers to drive innovation and faster time-to-market.

“Pure’s Docker integration works seamlessly, allowing our developers to build and deploy container-based persistent applications effortlessly. Pure Service Orchestrator takes this to the next level through its storage-as-a-service model, provisioning storage for stateful containers on-demand based on policy.” said Don Bauer, lead DevOps engineer, Franklin American Mortgage Company, “The Shared Accelerated Storage model combined with the simplicity that Pure is known for, will be key to scaling environments like ours, moving to a modern containerized application architecture.”

Service Orchestrator offers integration with Docker, Kubernetes and more to provide persistent storage support for containerized environments through the Docker volume plug-in, and Kubernetes FlexDriver. Additionally, it employs an automated, intelligent and scalable storage provisioning approach to deliver the cloud-like experience developers expect. It scales elastically across multiple storage systems and supports fluid containerized environments that can expand to thousands of containers.

It solves this problem and scales storage elastically across FlashArray, FlashBlade or mix of both systems, supports file and block, and delivers the flexibility to have varied configurations for each storage system that is part of the service. With ease of expansion via a single command, customers can start small and scale storage quickly as the needs of their containeized environments grow.

“Application architectures have begun to evolve from monolithic, scale-up and virtualized applications to scale-out, microservices applications. These new applications are typically built on containers, but lack of persistent storage support for stateful containers threatens to slow adoption,” said Sandeep Singh, senior director, solutions marketing, Pure. “Stateless containers can be spun up and down withins, while stateful containers live much longer. Some containers require block, while others require file storage. Developers are the fabric of modern business and must be empowered to consume storage-as-a-service for containerized applications. Pure Service Orchestrator is designed to do exactly that with cloud-like agility and enterprise-grade performance.“

Service Orchestrator functions as the control plane virtualization layer that enables containerized environments to move away from consuming storage-as-a-device to consuming storage-as-a-service.

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Benefits include:

• Smart provisioning. Delivers storage to containers on-demand based on policy and makes optimal provisioning decisions by assessing the performance, capacity and health of storage systems. In contrast to other solutions that require complex configuration parameters, delivering storage to containers with Service Orchestrator is painless – customers can specify the desired capacity size.

• Elastic scale. Scales across multiple systems with a mix of file and block in a single service. Customers can now support up to tens of thousands of applications spanning their entire fleet of FlashArray and FlashBlade arrays. The addition of new storage arrays to existing shared storage infrastructure is simple. With ease of expansion via a single command, customers can start small and scale storage quickly as the needs of their containerized environments grow.

• Transparent recovery. Self-heals to support robust services. Automatic re-provisioning helps protect customers against issues like node failure and array performance limits.

With Service Orchestrator, customers can extend their shared infrastructure beyond existing scale-up and virtualized applications to support containerized, persistent applications – all on Shared Accelerated Storage infrastructure.

Resources:
Pure Service Orchestrator DS
Blog: Getting Started with Pure Service Orchestrator and Helm
Blog:Pure Service Orchestrator: Now GA!
Blog:Delivering Container Storage-as-a-Service