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Hi, Flocker provides a neat abstraction to the underlying choice of storage. It has a range of different backends - EBS, OpenStack Cinder, ZFS (experimental), E

Hi, Flocker provides a neat abstraction to the underlying choice of storage. It has a range of different backends - EBS, OpenStack Cinder, ZFS (experimental), EMC scale.io, EMC Xtrem.io and many more. This means that if you decide to move your application to a different underlying platform - your storage specific application and infrastructure code remains the same and all that changes is a Flocker configuration. We have seen this benefit with a number of folks who need to support multiple infrastructures. Before Flocker - there were multiple code-paths depending on the underlying storage. Using Flocker - the same code-path was used.

wereHamster 11y ago
What about google persistent disks?
- ferrantim 11y ago
  Hi, this is Michael, I work at ClusterHQ. We don't support running Flocker with a Google persistent disk backend yet, but would like to. If you add that idea here, it will help us prioritize https://feedback.clusterhq.com/forums/305266-feedback-for-flocker-container-data-volume-manager https://feedback.clusterhq.com/forums/305266-feedback-for-fl...
- tehbeard 11y ago
  Doesn't appear to support it, but the source is on github and in theory they're just a different google-flavoured ebs.
  - ferrantim 11y ago
    Yep, someone would need to write a Flocker storage driver for GPD, that's all. Could be us, could be the community. We have docs on building drivers: https://docs.clusterhq.com/en/1.3.0/gettinginvolved/plugins.html https://docs.clusterhq.com/en/1.3.0/gettinginvolved/plugins....