KubeCon: MayaData Boosts OpenEBS Kubernetes Data Performance

OpenEBS, the container attached storage (CAS) solution for Kubernetes, announced the inclusion of MayaStor from MayaData, Inc. to increase the performance while using Kubernetes as a data plane with OpenEBS by 4-5x or more depending on workload, with tested results of more than 10 million IO/s.

OpenEBS, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project, announces milestones for the project, that it attended at KubeCon and speaking about GitLab and many other workloads, and shares the features released in OpenEBS 1.4.

MayaData contributes MayaStor
OpenEBS is cloud native in architecture, meaning data engines can be selected on a per workload or per workgroup basis. MayaData recently contributed MayaStor to the OpenEBS community, a first of its kind data engine that has been built and optimized to take advantage of new NVMe storage devices and cloud volumes.

MayaStor performance scales with the underlying hardware and has been shown, for example, to deliver in excess of 10 million IO/s in a particular environment. Of particular interest to OpenEBS users has been the encryption enabled by MayaStor, which removes risky and expensive encryption and decryption cycles during data migration by allowing the same at rest encryption to be applied at flight, such as cloud to cloud replication.

More detail on MayaStor in a blog by MayaData CTO Jeffry Molanus

Growing community
Since joining the CNCF in May of this year, OpenEBS user adoption has accelerated. Tech companies like Adobe, Arista, Wipro, and others are now public references of OpenEBS as well as communication service providers such as Comcast and Orange. OpenEBS also hit the 1,000th contributor a few weeks ago.

Various OpenEBS related events for KubeCon
MayaData represented OpenEBS at the KubeCon – CloudNativeCon North American event in San Diego, CA on November 18-21. It is also sponsoring the Cloud Native Rejekts North America Conference on November 16-17h at the San Diego History Center.

OpenEBS 1.4 release
It is available since November 15, consistent with the recently adopted monthly release schedule. This release adds to ease of use for ongoing operations, including upgrades, southbound provisioning of underlying cloud vendor volumes through CSI drivers such as EBS and GCE PD volumes, and more resilience in environments that are frequently auto-scaled.

MayaData adding OpenEBS Director enhancements
OpenEBS Director, which is available for free for individual usage, has also been upgraded in conjunction with OpenEBS 1.4. Part of MayaData OpenEBS Enterprise Platform, Director simplifies the use of Kubernetes as a data plane with OpenEBS via logging, visualization, backup, data migration scheduling and control, OpenEBS auto-configuration, and more. New capabilities include simpler upgrade of OpenEBS cStor pools and volumes, preconfigured alerting of abnormalities and improved visualization of existing and available data nodes. OpenEBS Director is available at no cost to individual users at either as a SaaS solution hosted and operated by MayaData or for on-premises deployments (registration required).

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