Dell Technologies today announced the latest
updates in a series of open source contributions from {code} by Dell
EMC, including trust and security enhancements to REX-Ray in 0.9, the
newest version of the leading container storage orchestration engine.
Additionally, REX-Ray is now shipping Docker Certified managed volume
plugins for cloud and storage platforms available in the Docker Store.
The Docker Certification Program, a framework for partners to integrate
and certify their software for the Docker Enterprise Edition (EE)
commercial platform. Other announcements include collaboration on a
universal Container Storage Interface and unification of Polly's
features and roadmap into REX-Ray.
Container
technology has made strides since last year's DockerCon, but there are
still barriers to organizations consuming them in an enterprise
environment-and that means it's time to put industry-standard
architectures and security measures in place for this technology.
Mitigating the risks of adopting containers for critical cloud native
persistent workloads has proved to be a significant challenge, and
REX-Ray 0.9 addresses this challenge through its controller model that
ships with security enabled by default. REX-Ray is able to run from
anywhere while protecting sensitive credentials, encrypting
communication, and performing per-client authentication.
The
Docker Store is the enterprise user's go-to destination for trusted,
enterprise-ready Docker containers, plugins and editions. Support for
storage platforms that work with Docker is made available through Docker
Certified managed volume plugins. These plugins greatly enhance the
user experience in ensuring integration to orchestrate persistent
applications with external storage. The Docker Certified REX-Ray plugins
include Amazon EBS/EFS, Dell EMC ScaleIO/Isilon, Google Compute Engine
PD, and any S3-compatible storage.
"Demand
for storage with containers is being driven by organizations looking to
use containers for all applications. Docker Enterprise Edition platform
and its pluggable architecture is the enabler of a new opportunity for
storage in the enterprise. REX-Ray through its features and security is a
great vehicle to ensure interoperability for many storage platforms,"
said Marianna Tessel, EVP Strategic Development at Docker.
Polly,
named for "polymorphic volume scheduling," is an open source volume
scheduling service centrally working with container schedulers to
provide volume resources when requested. The introduction of Polly's
scheduling services inside of REX-Ray's centralized controller will
enable users to deploy a single storage service that provides governance
and security for critical storage services. Additionally, through its
experience in building libStorage with Polly, the {code} team is
collaborating with industry leaders on a Container Storage Interface
initiative through the Cloud Native Computing Foundation to ensure
container orchestrators, storage controllers, and agents have a
universal way of interoperating in the future.
"Containers
have come a long way towards becoming enterprise ready with the
addition of enterprise-grade features such as security and more common
interfaces. Our work with the CNCF ensures that, once the Container
Storage Interface is ready, REX-Ray will bring support quickly to
existing storage drivers and we can start building long lasting value on
top of this work. Collaborative projects only benefit the enterprise
if users can actually consume it, and that's the thinking behind our
direction and updates through libStorage and REX-Ray 0.9," said Josh Bernstein, VP of Technology at Dell Technologies.
In
addition to the project updates, {code} by Dell EMC recently discussed
community momentum, including the state of the {code} Catalyst program.
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