By providing broad availability of Microsoft Azure Container Storage, the industry’s premier platform-managed container-native storage service in the public cloud, organizations can now seamlessly integrate their containerized applications with scalable and secure data storage solutions.
The dawn of a new era in cloud computing is here? With Kubernetes spearheading innovation, we’re witnessing a groundbreaking transformation as organizations migrate seamlessly from traditional virtual machines (VMs) to containers, unlocking unparalleled scalability, flexibility, and operational efficiencies. We are introducing Azure Container Registry to meet the demands by providing secure, cloud-based container storage and management.
Microsoft enhances its cloud capabilities by introducing Azure Container Storage, seamlessly integrating with Kubernetes to streamline the management of stateful workloads across a comprehensive range of storage solutions within the Azure ecosystem. Prior to this, prospective customers sought to adapt stateful applications to cloud-native storage solutions that could scale effectively, or alternatively, opted for self-managing open-source container storage options, despite potential limitations. Azure Container Storage is designed specifically for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), streamlining the process by allowing developers to focus on creating and operating applications without worrying about storage management. By leveraging Kubernetes APIs for seamless execution of all storage operations – mirroring actions like creating persistent volumes and scaling capacity on-demand – this feature obviates the need to interact with the management plane APIs of the underlying infrastructure, thereby streamlining operations.
Azure Container Storage simplifies and streamlines storage management across multiple backing storage options. Azure Container Storage now readily accessible, simplifying the initial stages of a comprehensive overhaul in the container storage landscape by seamlessly integrating ephemeral disks – comprising native NVMe and temporary solid-state drives – with Azure Disks. Ephemeral disks mark a pivotal moment for container customers, as they provide. Azure Container Storage offers seamless, built-in capabilities akin to snapshots and autoscaling, unmatched by any external solutions, following successful primary persistence provisioning.
As customers preview Azure Container Registry, they are already reaping the benefits of this game-changing technology, empowering their organizations with cutting-edge solutions that drive business success. Whether you’re optimising Redpanda cluster efficiency on ephemeral disks or scaling previous persistence quantity limits for Postgres workloads on Azure disks, Azure Container Storage enables a diverse range of workloads to thrive. To develop persistent and mutable functions, which is merely the beginning of a comprehensive approach to building robust stateful functions within containers. Shortly after general availability, we will expand our options to include Elastic Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions and subsequently, add support for Azure Blob Storage and Azure File Shares for shared storage scenarios.
Azure Container Storage delivers robust resilience and security for every workload through inherent design and enforcement mechanisms.
- Safeguarding high-availability applications by executing highly accessible stateful functions within Azure Container Storage, ensuring seamless resilience across all tiers of the resource hierarchy against zonal failures. You’ll have the ability to choose between zone-redundant storage (ZRS) options and multi-zone storage pools on local-redundant storage (LRS), enabling you to deliver an extremely available solution across zones with greater flexibility. Native storage optimizes placement of a pod’s persistent volumes on ephemeral disks residing on the same node as the AKS pod, thereby minimizing the number of failure modes affecting the application’s runtime. Our solution ensures unparalleled stability across three key areas: availability, price, and efficiency, delivering the industry’s most affordable block storage offering, backed by multi-zonal high availability support and sub-millisecond read latency.
- Safety is our top priority. We offer server-side encryption (SSE) as the default setting, utilizing platform-managed keys to ensure secure data protection, while also adhering to community safety guidelines tailored to each backing storage solution employed. Prospects can further enhance safety through targeted options, such as using Secure Sockets Layer (SSE) with customer-managed encryption keys, tailored to meet individual safety needs.
Azure Container Storage streamlines operations for enterprises looking to modernize by integrating various block storage options, facilitating seamless workload migrations, and ensuring business continuity through robust backup and disaster recovery capabilities.
We unify and centralize administrative expertise across our comprehensive suite of trusted Azure Block Storage solutions. Rethinking the need to manually certify and manage multiple container orchestration options for each storage resource you deploy, Azure Container Storage simplifies quantity provisioning within a storage pool, enabling us to group storage sources into a unified resource for your AKS cluster. This storage pool is optimally paired with your go-to storage option, allowing you to select the most economical resource tailored to your specific workload requirements and optimize performance accordingly. Ephemeral Disk, a recently introduced, container-optimized block storage solution, excels at supporting latency-critical workloads that benefit from the low-latency performance of native NVMe or temporary SSD storage technologies. Dutch telecommunications leader KPN leveraged its knowledge to successfully deploy Azure Container Storage with native NVMe on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to host a mission-critical email solution.
Private cloud by KPN is a game-changer in today’s digital landscape, says Peter Teeninga, Cloud Architect.
We’ve teamed up with CloudCasa, a leading player in Kubernetes data portability, to streamline critical cloud migrations and minimize disruption. To effectively support our cloud offerings, we have collaborated with Kasten, a leading provider of data protection solutions for Kubernetes environments, offering robust backup and disaster recovery capabilities. For further details on our information migration and backup services provided in partnership with our associates, kindly refer to the subsequent section.
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Azure Container Storage offers seamless connectivity to Kubernetes, providing a scalable, container-optimized experience that’s been engineered from the ground up for utility builders crafting cloud-based options. This approach enables your functions to evolve seamlessly and economically as needs change. By embracing industry-standard protocols akin to NVMe-oF and iSCSI, we streamline interoperability, providing additional efficiency options. By leveraging the reduced latency associated with connect and detach, you’ll efficiently enjoy the advantages of swift scale-out and seamless failover capabilities. Azure Container Instances allows users to attach additional storage resources to a single virtual machine, increasing the limit to 75 volumes regardless of the VM size. The enhanced versatility will empower customers’ abilities to streamline Azure resources, thereby better meeting their budgetary and performance goals. Sesam, a Norwegian provider of information synchronization and administration services, has harnessed the benefits of scalable storage to achieve significant cost savings by optimizing the use of its persistent volumes.
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Sesam.io’s Product Supervisor Geir Ove Grønmo.
Azure Container Storage prioritizes extremely environmentally friendly and operationally efficient storage management as its foundational capability. Azure Container Storage seamlessly integrates with CloudCasa and Kasten, providing built-in migration, backup, and disaster recovery capabilities for stateful container workloads.
With the ability to robotically rebuild an entire cluster, our solution simplifies the management of cluster recovery and migration by providing centralized control over the process, allowing for seamless movement of existing Kubernetes workloads into or out of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). To seamlessly migrate existing workloads to a modernized Azure environment, initiate a comprehensive backup of current storage sources and execute a subsequent restore, designating Azure Container Storage as the primary storage resource for your cluster.
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Data protection regulations are constantly evolving, and our customers need assurance that their cloud-based data is secure. That’s why we’ve integrated Catalogic’s powerful data management capabilities with AWS Backup to provide a comprehensive backup and recovery solution for the cloud.
Automatically orchestrates the comprehensive lifecycle of backup and catastrophe recovery, safeguarding your Kubernetes deployments and mission-critical systems throughout. When deploying your storage pool in Azure Container Registry, you’ll be able to seamlessly integrate Kasten’s snapshot configuration process. Kasten empowers scalable backup management through its innovative, crash-consistent approach to data protection.
As the Principal Resolution Architect for Cloud Native Partnerships at Kasten by Veeam, Matt Slotten?
Building upon previous updates shared during our preview period, this announcement emphasizes several distinct features that set us apart. To ensure seamless operations despite potential setbacks, we’ve fortified the fault tolerance of stateful containers by integrating native NVMe storage pool configurations, safeguarding against data unavailability caused by individual node failures. We’ve further enhanced assistance across all storage options to provide seamless backup and disaster recovery capabilities. In addition, our Ephemeral Disk lineup has been broadened to include assisted solutions, thereby improving cost-effectiveness in scenarios where direct-attached native storage can be utilized. With great anticipation, we are pleased to unveil three innovative features that amplify the robustness and productivity of stateful workload operations:
- Enhance the durability and availability of persistent volumes deployed on native NVMe storage (L-series ephemeral disks) by leveraging replication assistance.
- Improved persistence: restoring quantities seamlessly after an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster restart.
- Enhance the performance of your on-site NVMe storage by selecting from a range of optimized efficiency tiers.
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