In an ideal world, Docker containers should be ephemeral without any reliance on external storage. In the microservice world, this is achievable when services are connecting to external databases, queues, and other services. Sometimes though, we need persistent storage, when we're running services such as Jenkins, Prometheus, or Postgres. Fortunately,...
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Last time we talked about deploying a Ceph cluster with block storage using Rook. Today we are going to dive into discussing a different type of storage method that Rook provides and what it's use case and benefits are. What is MinIO?MinIO is a high performance object store that...
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As we know, volumes provide a flexible and powerful way to add persistent storage to managed dockers, but what should we do if we want to share storage volumes across several Docker hosts, for instance, a Swarm cluster? In this topic, we will consider a simple method of creating shared...
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It goes without saying that if you want to orchestrate containers at this point, Kubernetes is what you use to do it. Sure, there may be a few Docker Swarm holdouts still around, but for the most part, K8s has cemented itself as the industry standard for container orchestration solutions....
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