Persistent Data in a Microservices World

OPEN SOURCE

PERSISTENTDATA

CLOUD-SCALESOFTWARE

MICROSERVICES

Microservices Architectures are Evolving

Multiple Approaches to Data Persistence

RYAN WALLNER CLINT KITSON KAMAL SRINIVASAN

Today’s Speakers

What is Flocker?

• Portable Persistence• Databases + Containers• Solves Stateless vs. Stateful

Container Issues• Cluster Management• Uses Docker under the hood• Today: works with ZFS

(exp), EBS, OpenStack

Move/Deploy/Migrate Containers

Container

Start Container

Detach

--volume

Container

Start Container

Create/AttachVolume

UnmountWait for IO

Deploy/Move/Migrate Container with your EMC Data Store!All steps happen automatically

Local EMC Storage

(Server SAN)

Shared External SAN(XtremIO)

Flocker Volume API

EMC Driver

Flocker Volume API

EMC Driver

Attach

Local EMC Storage

(Server SAN)

Shared External SAN

(XtremIO)

Stop Container

Native Docker Integration

--volume-driver=flocker*

*https://github.com/ClusterHQ/flocker-docker-plugin github.com/emccorp/scaleio-flocker-driver github.com/emccorp/xtremio-flocker-driver 

Micro-Services and Persistence

Load Balancing

Services

Routing

Non-Persistent

PersistentPersistence is evolving!

Hello Volume Manager API!

• Volume Enhancements #13161- EXPERIMENTAL (Docker 1.7)

- Refactor Volume Interface

- Prepare for Volumes as 1st class citizens

- Create a plugin client in Docker to request storage from a Volume Manager API

• Enabling Storage and Virtualization Platforms to Provide

- Fast Bytes

- Data Services

- Data Mobility

- Availability

Example Mount

LibStorage?

DEMO: Docker Storage API with EMC Storage Platforms

Elastic Cloud Storage 2.0

Docker Stateful Cloud Storage

Web AppsContent Repository Cloud ArchiveAnalytics

Global Namespace

Internet of Things

SITE 1 SITE 2 SITE 3

ECS Design Philosophy

Lego based architecture

Docker Persistence

OS

Docker Daemon

Hardware

Storage Engine

Container

Any hardware

Any Linux distro

ECS Data Path

FREE ECS Software 2.0

• Free Unlimited capacity

• Free Unlimited time

• Go from application prototype to production faster

• Container-ized download available on DockerHub June 22nd

• Community driven support

Finding All the New Code

http://github.com/emccode/rexray

https://github.com/emccorp/scaleio-flocker-driver https://github.com/emccorp/xtremio-flocker-driver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufSbF0-pk_Qhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKwNWTEE6hA

https://github.com/EMCECS/ECS-CommunityEdition

Thank youRyan Wallner (@RyanWallner)Clint Kitson (@ClintonSKitson)Kamalavasan Srinivasan (@kamal_srini)