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I need the best storage for my #Kubernetes workloads!
What are the requirements? Performance? Deployment? Reliability? 😰

There are many things to consider when selecting the right Kubernetes storage for your workload(s).

💎 Performance requirements?
💎 Deployment environment (cloud, on-premises, hybrid)?
💎 Hyper-converged? Disaggregated? Mixed?
💎 Data Protection and Fault tolerance
💎 Data Security
💎 Budgetary restrictions
💎 Management overhead
💎 Monitoring
💎 more ...

https://www.simplyblock.io/blog/choosing-the-right-kubernetes-storage-solution-for-your-workloads/

Choosing the Right Kubernetes Storage Solution for Your Workloads

TLDR: Choosing the right Kubernetes Storage isn’t 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 […]

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simplyblock Jan 28

Bare-Metal or Virtualized #Kubernetes? 🤔

How do you use Kubernetes? Bare-Metal, Virtualized, Fully Managed? 🧵👇

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

Bare-Metal Kubernetes: Power of Direct Hardware Access

Experience the performance boost of running Kubernetes on bare metal. Improve access to hardware resources and increase storage performance.

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simplyblock Jan 25

Chris Engelbert / noctarius Jan 25

All in Kubernetes - Road Show
Join us for 2 talks on Wednesday, Jan 29 in Berlin.
Location: Antler office Jägerstrasse 32

Signup now
Meetup: https://sblk.xyz/allk8s-meetup
Luma: https://lu.ma/302v7ag3

Presented by #Antler and @simplyblock
via #kubernetes #security #postgres

All in Kubernetes - Berlin Edition, Mi., 29. Jan. 2025, 18:00 | Meetup

## **Details** This is the first event from the "All in Kubernetes" event series. This group is focused on using Kubernetes for everything. All in Kubernetes. Data, datab

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simplyblock Jan 21

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 […]

https://www.simplyblock.io/glossary/what-is-thin-provisioning/

What is Thin Provisioning?

Simplyblock is unified high-performance storage platform for databases and IO-intensive workloads in Kubernetes. See our glossary for technologies and features.

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simplyblock Jan 20

simplyblock Jan 17

We Built a Tool to Help You Understand Your Real EBS Usage!

There is one question in life that is really hard to answer: “What is your actual AWS EBS volume usage?” When talking to customers and users, this question is frequently left open with the note that they’ll check and tell us later. With storage being one of the main cost factors of cloud services such as Amazon’s AWS, this is not what it should be. But who could blame them? It’s not like AWS is making it obvious to you how much of your storage resources (not only capacity but […]

https://www.simplyblock.io/blog/ebs-volume-usage-exporter/

We Built a Tool to Help You Understand Your Real EBS Usage!

Get the most out of your AWS EBS volumes. Our tool helps to accurately measure your storage usage and to optimize storage costs in EKS.

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simplyblock Jan 16

💡 Scalable architectures, two concepts: 𝙎𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙚-𝙐𝙥 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙎𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙚-𝙊𝙪𝙩

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 🔥

🔗 Link to the full blog post: https://www.simplyblock.io/blog/scale-up-vs-scale-out/

#scaleout #scaleup #scalability #systemarchitecture

Scale Up vs Scale Out: System Scalability Strategies

Which system architecture should you choose when building a scalable system?

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simplyblock Jan 15

simplyblock Jan 8

NVMe over TCP vs iSCSI: 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. That’s 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 “low end” side of […]

https://www.simplyblock.io/blog/nvme-over-tcp-vs-iscsi/

NVMe over TCP vs iSCSI: Evolution of Network Storage

How replacing iSCSI with NVMe over TCP helped to evolve network storage.

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simplyblock Dec 18, 2024

Do you remember No. 5?

simplyblock Dec 17, 2024

❓ 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.

https://www.simplyblock.io/blog/encryption-at-rest-dare/

#DataBreach #DataSec #encryption

Encryption At Rest: A Comprehensive Guide to DARE

Data At Rest Encryption (DARE) encrypts data when stored on a storage medium.

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simplyblock Aug 13, 2024

bifrost security Aug 13, 2024

Lately at bifrost security! 🚀

🎙 CEO Hannes Ullman on the Cloud Commute podcast: How bifrost secures Kubernetes workloads.

🖥 Webinars: Join us in September for deep dives into cloud-native security. Check out our upcoming sessions.

🗣 Roundtable on 19/9: Exploring Linux Security Modules for container security.

Read more on our website: https://bifrostsec.com/

bifrost security

bifrost security offers an automated tool to help harden the security for cloud-based applications that run within containerized orchestrated services such as Kubernetes. bifrost has a patented methodology to automatically generate security profiles based on customers' solutions that protect and min

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