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Book Review
about what’s possible, admins tend to think in deployed inside containers along with the
terms of what’s stable. They must be able to apps already running there.
manage infrastructures quickly and easily and This book consists of six short chapters,
want to know how containers can meet those which are each designed to stand alone:
requirements. √ Chapter 1 introduces Linux containers
Although many organisations still use and why they’re useful. It also covers
traditional storage appliances, they don’t the inherent lack of persistent storage in
off er the agility needed by containerized containers and the necessary workaround.
environments. Containers are highly fl exible √ Chapter 2 explains the various fl avours of
and bring incredible scale to how apps and storage for and in containers.
storage are delivered; traditional storage can √ Chapter 3 takes a deeper look at container-
be the bottleneck that stops this progress. native storage and explores how a common
The underlying storage should be highly management plane makes container storage
elastic, easily provisioned by developers and easier for admins and developers.
admins, and, ideally, managed using the same √ Chapter 4 describes the reasons why
orchestration framework (like Kubernetes) developers have embraced container-native
used for application containers. storage.
You discover throughout this book that a √ Chapter 5 off ers 10 compelling reasons why
key part of achieving fl exibility and scalability you should move toward container storage
is container-native storage, a type of storage ASAP. •
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