Elastifile Cloud File Service Enhanced Automation With Terraform Provider Plug-in and CSI Support for Kubernetes

Elastifile Ltd. announced a provider plug-in for HashiCorp Terraform supporting its Cloud File Service, the company’s fully-managed file storage service on Google Cloud.

The availability of the Terraform provider simplifies infrastructure-as-code (IaC) automation, enabling efficient, programmatic control over the company’s cloud-native NAS solution. In addition, the firm announced that its Cloud File Service supports the Container Storage Interface (CSI) spec, enabling automated integration with Kubernetes deployments.

The accelerating pace of enterprise cloud adoption, when coupled with the flexibility offered by elastic cloud resources, necessitates simplified IT management and enhanced automation. As a result, provisioning and managing cloud resources via infrastructure-as-code with Terraform has become a way to deliver flexible, adaptable cloud integration.

Terraform provider plug-ins simplify resource automation by describing the characteristics and capabilities of specific resource types and providing a predefined mechanism for interacting with those resource types. It facilitates turnkey control over the features and functionality offered by the firm’s Cloud File Service.

Complementing the enhancement for Terraform-based orchestration, the company’s Cloud File Service also offers enhanced Kubernetes-based orchestration, via support for the firm’s Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver. Via CSI, Elastifile file storage resources can be dynamically deployed, managed, and scaled by container orchestration platforms, such as Kubernetes.

Leveraging this new capability, containerized workflows on Google Cloud can leverage end-to-end automation, while benefiting from the advantages of scalable, persistent, enterprise file-storage-as-a-service. In addition, CSI support also simplifies integration with application platforms, such as Google Cloud’s Anthos and Red Hat OpenShift.

“Automated resource management is a crucial requirement for cloud-integrated enterprise workflows,” said Dr. Allon Cohen, VP, business development and cloud solutions, Elastifile. “By augmenting our service with enhanced Terraform and container integration, we’re simplifying cloud adoption by making storage automation easier than ever before.“

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