Low-latency high-performance storage software for IO-intensive workloads (such as databases), in Kubernetes, for Kubernetes. Build your own Elastic Block Storage alternative. Right in your own AWS account.
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The best birthday present possible π₯
Last year in August, my team at @simplyblock and I decided not to add more duct tape to Supabase but to fork it.
The idea, a fully self-hostable, production-grade, serverless Postgres platform. Today we're happy to open-sourcing #vela!
I need the best storage for my #Kubernetes workloads!
What are the requirements? Performance? Deployment? Reliability? π°
There are many things to consider when selecting the right Kubernetes storage for your workload(s).
π Performance requirements?
π Deployment environment (cloud, on-premises, hybrid)?
π Hyper-converged? Disaggregated? Mixed?
π Data Protection and Fault tolerance
π Data Security
π Budgetary restrictions
π Management overhead
π Monitoring
π more ...
https://www.simplyblock.io/blog/choosing-the-right-kubernetes-storage-solution-for-your-workloads/
TLDR: Choosing the right Kubernetes Storage isnβt easy. As a guideline for the selection, make sure you have the best of hyper-converged (co-located) and disaggregated setups. Also, make sure that your selected Kubernetes storage solution provides support for data encryption at rest and the necessary scalability for your growing use cases. As a rule of [β¦]
Bare-Metal or Virtualized #Kubernetes? π€
How do you use Kubernetes? Bare-Metal, Virtualized, Fully Managed? π§΅π
Our CEO @robpankow has a clear opinion. There is no good reason to run Kubernetes virtualized. Unless you want to waste worthwhile hardware resources that is.
Containerization is a thin layer baked into the operating system, typically Linux, to isolate processes into their own namespaces, nothing else.
See the difference for yourself!
https://sblk.xyz/bare-metal-k8s
All in Kubernetes - Road Show
Join us for 2 talks on Wednesday, Jan 29 in Berlin.
Location: Antler office JΓ€gerstrasse 32
Signup now
Meetup: https://sblk.xyz/allk8s-meetup
Luma: https://lu.ma/302v7ag3
Presented by #Antler and @simplyblock
via #kubernetes #security #postgres
What is Thin Provisioning?
Thin provisioning is a storage technology that helps consolidate and share physical disk space across multiple thinly provisioned virtual disks or disk images (sparse files). With thin provisioning, we can create arbitrary large files or virtual disks without the need to provide all the necessary storage capacity at once immediately. The term thin provisioning is most commonly associated with virtual hard disks, such as disk images for virtual machines or containers. Benefits of Thin [β¦]https://www.simplyblock.io/glossary/what-is-thin-provisioning/
We Built a Tool to Help You Understand Your Real EBS Usage!
There is one question in life that is really hard to answer: βWhat is your actual AWS EBS volume usage?β When talking to customers and users, this question is frequently left open with the note that theyβll check and tell us later. With storage being one of the main cost factors of cloud services such as Amazonβs AWS, this is not what it should be. But who could blame them? Itβs not like AWS is making it obvious to you how much of your storage resources (not only capacity but [β¦]
π‘ Scalable architectures, two concepts: ππππ‘π-ππ₯ ππ£π ππππ‘π-ππͺπ©
But when to use one over the other?
In this blog post, our very own @noctarius2k, wrote about the pros and cons of each of the approaches. Simplicity and limited scalability vs complexity and higher scalability.
He also explains how simplyblock is implemented and why we did what we did π₯
π Link to the full blog post: https://www.simplyblock.io/blog/scale-up-vs-scale-out/
NVMe over TCP vs iSCSI β Evolution of Network Storage
TLDR: In a direct comparison of NVMe over TCP vs iSCSI, we see that NVMe over TCP outranks iSCSI in all categories with IOPS improvements of up to 50% (and more) and latency improvements by up to 34%. When data grows, storage needs to grow, too. Thatβs when remotely attached SAN (Storage Area Network) systems come in. So far, these were commonly connected through one of three protocols: Fibre Channel, Infiniband, or iSCSI. However, with the latter being on the βlow endβ side of things, [β¦]
β Have you ever wondered how data encryption works and what's the difference between data-at-rest and data-in-use? If yes, check out our latest blog post on Data At Rest Encryption (#DARE).
Simplyblock provides data-at-rest encryption with a fully multi-tenant DARE feature set, which means that you can encrypt multiple logical volumes (virtual block devices) with the same key or one key per logical volume.
Chris Engelbert / noctarius
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