From Infinidat, Container Storage Interface Driver for Kubernetes and Other CNCF-Compliant Containers Environments.

Infinidat Ltd. announced the availability of its Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver for Kubernetes and other CNCF-compliant containers environments.

The InfiniBox CSI Driver helps users of reliable, InfiniBox storage systems manage their storage within container platforms that support the CSI standard. It is a direct result of customer demand to bring the automation and ease of use of InfiniBox to DevOps practices, and demonstrates the company’s continued commitment to the Kubernetes ecosystem, as validated in the recent GigaOm Radar for Storage for Kubernetes.

Storage becomes a challenge as container adoption grows and customers demand more scale, flexibility and standardization. The Container Storage Interface (CSI) is a standard for orchestrating control plane operations on file and block storage.

Among other features, InfiniBox CSI Driver enables users to:

Deploy hundreds of thousands of persistent volumes per InfiniBox
Manage persistent volumes backed by iSCSI, NFS, or FC protocols
Control multiple InfiniBox systems within a single Kubernetes cluster
Manage InfiniBox snapshots and clones, including restoring from snapshots
Clone, extend and manage persistent volumes created outside of the InfiniBox CSI Driver

Demonstrating the company’s commitment to mission-critical Kubernetes deployments, the CSI Driver has been certified with major commercial Kubernetes distributions Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition. Clients can access the Infinidat Operator for the CSI Driver through the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog, simplifying deployment in Red Hat environments, and users of other Kubernetes platforms can deploy with Helm charts. The CSI Driver is also listed in VMware Solutions Exchange.

“Starting from 2019 we’re seeing growing popularity for our ‘Containers-as-a-Service’ offering powered by Kubernetes. Our customers are launching highly demanding containerized environments, leveraging reliability and scalability of this ecosystem. Working with storage traditionally is a challenge in Kubernetes environments. The Infinidat CSI Driver will allow us and our customers to use the high performing, reliable InfiniBox system in a containerized environment. This new capability simplifies storage integration in Kubernetes clusters and makes InfiniBox even more convenient for us. I’m sure that our Kubernetes customers will appreciate this InfiniBox innovation,” said Mikhail Solviev, director, product management, DataLine.

“The pace of change in containerized environments is incredible. Today’s announcement gives customers more control over their container environments to accelerate innovation and discovery without having to worry about storage keeping up,” said Gregory Touretsky, Sr director, product management, Infinidat. “We’re taking all the economic benefits InfiniBox has to offer – high performance, high reliability and low cost of ownership at multi-petabyte scale – and making them available across the emerging Kubernetes universe.“

Listed on the official CSI drivers table, the InfiniBox CSI Driver is available at no charge through GitHub and Docker Hub.

Resources:
Blog: Infinidat CSI Driver
Community discussion

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