LOS ANGELES, Sept. 11, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Open
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News Summary
- {code}, Dell Technologies' open source organization, today
releases REX-Ray v0.10, the first project to support the Container
Storage Interface (CSI) specification, a proposed new industry
standard for container orchestrators and volume plugins designed to
accelerate container technology adoption
- REX-Ray, an established open source container orchestration
engine that enables persistence for cloud-native workloads, now
includes plugins for 15 storage integrations, with the addition of
NFS, local block services and VFS, immediately making those storage
platforms CSI-compatible
- {code} by Dell EMC is now {code}, a group of passionate open
source engineers and advocates building community through
contribution and engagement in emerging technologies. The group
also provides assistance internally, from individuals to large
business units, to help bring projects to the open source
community, adhering to best practices.
Dell Technologies announced the latest version of REX-Ray, the
open source container orchestration engine that enables persistent
storage for cloud-native workloads, reached a new milestone.
Created by {code}, formerly {code} by Dell EMC, REX-Ray v0.10
offers the first-ever plugins enabled by the Container Storage
Interface (CSI) that implement a pre-release of the CSI 0.1
specification. As a result, major cloud providers and
software-based platforms are immediately interoperable through CSI.
REX-Ray is the first CSI plugin implementation to stand as an early
validation of the CSI specification to help progress towards
industry acceptance and container orchestrator implementations.
CSI is a universal storage interface, effectively an API,
between container orchestrators and storage providers that will
allow predictable interoperability between the two. It is an
iteration from existing integrations with lessons learned from the
community and major container platforms including Kubernetes,
Mesos, Docker, and Cloud Foundry. Container orchestrators adopting
CSI can leverage any storage provider, cloud or otherwise, while
enabling storage providers to work with any container orchestrator
that implements the specification. The end result is that CSI
adoption will provide applications with portability across
infrastructures, helping bring choice to users, while containers
become more applicable to a broader range of applications. {code}
has a history of developing integrations for container platforms
and is dedicated to supporting CSI to make cloud native
computing ubiquitous, and to ensure storage is first-class and
interoperable on behalf of applications.
"With REX-Ray, {code} is doing
some important work to validate the Container Storage Interface
standard we've been collaborating on to unlock the potential of the
cloud-native ecosystem," said Benjamin
Hindman, chief architect and co-founder, Mesosphere.
"REX-Ray provides a vital service for some of the largest users on
Mesosphere DC/OS, enabling them to simplify the management and
allocation of persistent storage for stateful workloads across any
infrastructure."
To meet the needs of enterprise users, in addition to supporting
CSI, REX-Ray v0.10 offers new features and functionality,
including:
- Industry-first, introduction of three native CSI storage
plugins: This work represents the first three native CSI
storage drivers, opening the market for more storage platform
support, while also functioning as a blueprint for contributors
looking to create CSI drivers.
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- The NFS plugin opens the market for storage platforms that do
not have direct CSI support.
- A block devices plugin introduces new capabilities for
on-premises applications that can optimally make use of logical or
physical devices local to a host.
- Finally a VFS (virtual file system) driver that allows
end-to-end CI verification of the CSI specification without the
need of a separate storage provider.
- Immediate wide applicability of storage providers to
CSI: Through REX-Ray's existing collection of current storage
drivers (plus the three new native CSI plugins), 15 plugins are now
immediately available to work with container orchestrators that
adopt the CSI specification.
- Merging libStorage into REX-Ray: libStorage, an open
source vendor and platform-agnostic storage framework from {code},
was absorbed into REX-Ray to simplify the process for end-user
support and simplifies development of future storage drivers.
"We're in a catch-22 with containers, where adoption needs to
increase to drive innovation, and innovation needs to continue to
drive adoption," said Josh
Bernstein, vice president of technology, Dell Technologies.
"But this innovation can't exist in a vacuum—industry standards are
critical to ensuring that containers are evolving, and container
orchestrators are able to easily meet storage demands through a
single protocol. REX-Ray's support for CSI demonstrates both our
commitment to open source tools and our commitment to furthering
container adoption."
{code} is the open source organization of Dell Technologies,
dedicated to executing projects with complete transparency and
openness. The mission of {code} is to contribute to and create open
source projects, act in the interest of building a community and
driving awareness of emerging technologies. The {code} Community
currently has more than 4,300 members and the {code} team has
shepherded 100 open source projects to date. REX-Ray is recognized
by Docker as an approved, verified persistent storage solution for
Docker containers and ships with Mesosphere DC/OS as the default
persistent storage mechanism.
Availability
- REX-Ray v0.10 is available on GitHub
Additional Resources
- View all of the {code} open source projects at
thecodeteam.com
- Follow {code} on Twitter
- Join the {code} Community on Slack
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