Velero backup to PowerScale S3 Bucket
Velero is one of the most popular tools for backup and restoring of Kubernetes resources.
PowerScale is Dell's leading scale-out NAS solution, supporting many different access protocols including S3!
2022
Dell Container Storage Module - A GitOps-ready platform!
One of the very first things I do after deploying a Kubernetes cluster is to install a CSI Driver to provide persistent storage to my workloads; coupled with a GitOps workflow, it takes seconds literally to be able to run stateful workloads.
Build a custom Dell CSI Driver
With all the Dell CSI drivers and dependencies being open-source, anyone can tweak them to fit a specific use case.
This article demonstrates creating a patched version of a Dell CSI Driver for PowerScale.
CSI PowerFlex performance
Containerized workloads and microservices are designed to be ephemeral. It can be to answer the needs of scalability (via Pod autoscaling) or because they process data for a short period (ML workload). Every day stateful apps are becoming a bigger part of Kubernetes workloads.