Kubernetes is everywhere now, right? You see how companies are embracing this technology more and more, it’s like the Kardashians or Rosalía or TikTok; MAINSTREAM! BUT, as companies evolve and grow their container environments, they realize that stateful apps require more than a robust Kubernetes distribution, data is the key of their apps. Applications are as important as the data that they use. Managing 1M bank transactions is not the same as using bridge images, so you have to be very careful on how you control and use that data. Portworx is here to help with those problems. In this session, we will see how Portworx is able to manage volumes in the cloud with Kubernetes in seconds AND migrate that data from cluster to cluster in minutes, even a Disaster Recovery environment with ZERO data loss and NO downtime. Do you want to see it live? join this session!

1. Miguel Rojas
Cloud Architect EMEA
Portworx by Pure Storage
mrojas@purestorage.com
@portworx
@purestorage
Delivering a Kubernetes data
platform with Portworx

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Kubernetes,
Containers
and
Companies
What’s your story?
Founded
2014
‘15 ‘20
‘17
A little history

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Cloud Native is driven by Kubernetes adoption
OF NEW APPS
are developed in
containers.
95% OF ENTERPRISES
81%
OF CNCF MEMBERS
78%
use Kubernetes in
production.
work with 2+ public
cloud providers.
OF GLOBAL BUSINESSES
85%
will be running containers in
production by 2025
(up from 35% in 2019).
Source: CNCF Survey 2021

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The Kubernetes stack has room to mature
Which areas of the Kubernetes tech stack need to mature the most to
make it easier to deploy cloud-native apps?
Source: Kubernetes Adoption Survey 2021 - Portworx
Ranked top three
Application
development
frameworks
Storage and
data
management
Monitoring
and
observability
Networking Orchestration
and
management
75% 68% 57% 54% 46%

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Connector Approach to Container-Native
Two approaches common in the industry today…
Container-Native Storage Approach
”Connector” Approach
Storage Array
1
Storage Array
2
CSI
• 1:1 container <> volume mapping
• Container capabilities vary depending on the capabilities of the
underlying array
• Storage arrays often are challenged by the object count (#
volumes, connections) and change rate (10,000s changes/day)
• Innovation limited to the features in the open CSI specification
• Storage arrays managed independently from K8s
Storage
Array
Local
SSDs/HDDs
Storage Pool
Cloud
Storage
• Many (1,000s):1 container <> volume mapping
• Designed to scale to 10,000s operations/day
• Ensures consistent storage services across ANY infrastructure
• Storage services container-granular and application consistent
• Storage “encapsulated” in a container-native virtual volume that
is free to move with the container
• Managed as a native part of K8s
Pure PSO
NetApp
Dell

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Kubernetes key attributes
MASSIVE-SCALE
KUBERNETES-NATIVE
PLUGGABLE
ARCHITECTURE
OPTIMIZED FOR
MULTI-CLOUD WORLD
APPLICATION CENTRIC
Scales to 1,000s of nodes, 1,000s
of concurrent operations per
minute
All platform operations should be
through a consistent control plane,
the Kubernetes API
Able to offer a consistent control pane on
heterogeneous infrastructure environments
Easily swap in and out core
”infrastructure” services –
networking, storage, monitoring
Platform capabilities should be
focused on the needs of an
application first
Compute
Platform

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Today, Portworx Is the Leading
Kubernetes Data Services Platform
Any App Any Distribution
GKE
DATABASE ANALYTICS STREAMING SEARCH/LOG AI/ML
5G/IoT
Any Cloud Any Infrastructure
Bare Metal Pilot
Go
Live
Global
CaaS
Test/
Dev
Every Stage
The Kubernetes Data Services Platform
PX-Store PX-Secure
PX-Backup PX-DR PX-Migrate PX-Autopilot
Portworx
Data
Services

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What would you like to solve?
The Kubernetes Data Services Platform
PX-Store PX-Secure
PX-Backup PX-DR PX-Migrate PX-Autopilot
Storage,
Share, Scale,
Monitor
Anywhere in
K8s
Backup and
restore from,
and to,
anywhere
DR:
RTO of minutes,
Minutes RPO
Migrate or
duplicate
environments
fast
Auto-pilot
Intelligent,
performant, hyper
converged
self-service
Storage.
The Kubernetes Data Services Platform
PX-Store PX-Secure
PX-Backup PX-DR PX-Migrate PX-Autopilot
Portworx
Data
Services
Secure and
grant storage
access with
RBAC and
Integrations
DBaaS
anywhere fully
managed by
Portworx.

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Portworx sets the gold standard for Kubernetes Storage
Portworx named a Cloud-Native Data Storage & Enterprise Kubernetes Storage leader in 2021 GigaOm Radars
Cloud-Native Data
Storage
GigaOm Radar for Cloud-Native Data Storage for Kubernetes, 2021 GigaOm Radar for Enterprise Kubernetes Storage, 2021
Enterprise Kubernetes
Storage

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Use case: App and Data Migrations
Data centre 1 / Cloud 1 Data centre 2 / Cloud 2
Kubernetes 1 Kubernetes 2
OBJECT STORAGE
► Async data & object replication
► Snap restore based
► Scheduled or on-demand
► RPO 5 minutes
► RTO 5 minutes

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Use case: Container backup & restore
Application granular backup & restore
App 1 App 2
1. k8s objects
2. Config
3. Data
On-premises
ANY Object Storage
NFS – coming soon!
PX-Backup App 1 App 2
App 1 App 2
Second site
Cloud environment
RESTORE
RESTORE

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Portworx Backup
Namespace A
AWS mysql-0
Namespace B
On-Prem mongo-0
Backup Location
Schedule
Rules
Backup Location
Schedule
AWS S3-A AWS S3-B
Daily Hourly
FB S3-A FB S3-B
Weekly Monthly
Developer
User Type
App Owner
Admin
● Backup/restore
their apps
● App + namespace
granularity
Permissions
+
● Set schedules
● Set rules
● Use existing
cloud accounts
+
● Add users
● Create and share
cloud accounts &
backup locations
● Create custom
roles

13. Building platforms with
Portworx

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Operator
Kubernetes
Installing Portworx
Installing Portworx deploys an Operator to run worker nodes, not on the control plane nodes
Control plane
Worker Worker
Worker
Spec based installation HELM Package manager

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Installing Portworx
Local storage or SAN based storage will be used to create a virtual storage pool
SSD
SSD
LUN
SSD
SSD
LUN
SSD
SSD
LUN
Storage Pool
Worker Worker
Worker

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Using Portworx
Application can create Persistent Volumes from the storage pool using Persistent Volume Claims
SSD
SSD
LUN
SSD
SSD
LUN
SSD
SSD
LUN
Storage Pool
Worker Worker
Worker
Replication factor 1
Replication factor 2
Replication factor 3
50G 50G 50G
For high availability you can
mirror volumes across nodes
using a replication factor,
which can be applied to the
volume or the stroage class

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Respond to a node failure
Application can create Persistent Volumes from the storage pool using Persistent Volume Claims
SSD
SSD
LUN
SSD
SSD
LUN
SSD
SSD
LUN
Storage Pool
Worker Worker
Worker
50G 50G 50G
Portworx integrates with the
Kubernetes scheduler to
reschedule the Pod on a
worker with a local replica

18. Designing a Portworx deployment
Deployment models

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Standard deployment
• Single Portworx and Kubernetes cluster
• Minimum of three worker nodes
• A block storage device
Worker Worker
Worker

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AZ 2 AZ 3
AZ 1
Worker
Worker
Worker
Multi-zone high availability (HA)
VOL
VOL VOL
Volume replica placement
Follows K8s failure
domains
Multi-zone
Kubernetes cluster
ETCD ETCD
ETCD
Worker Worker
Worker

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Storage Cluster
Scale and manage storage
Compute Cluster
Scale and manage compute
PWX
PWX PWX
PWX
Portworx cluster
KVDB
VOL
VOL
VOL
VOL
Disaggregated compute and storage
PVC PVC PVC

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Case Study: Consumer scale for Enterprise PaaS
CHALLENGE
► Scale back-office apps responsible for T-Mobile
store experience during Apple launches
SOLUTION
► Portworx Enterprise running on-prem to provide
complete data lifecycle management- provisioning,
encryption, backup, and more.
RESULTS
► Regularly withstand the launch of new Apple
products results in dramatic spike in usage Data services used:

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