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Why Kubernetes is such a problem for storage appliance vendors
- nunez 7y agoI’m not buying this article. If your company is okay with going fully PUBLIC-cloud-native, then sure, maintaining your SAN doesnt make a ton of sense. However, many large companies are still insistent on keeping their compute on-premise. If you’re doing private cloud, then you still need appliances. Also, Kubes can talk to (and abstract) appliances just fine. Infoblox (DNS appliance) has a k8s plugin for IPAM. F5 (firewall appliance) has one too for creating VIPs for ingress controllers. And, of course, EMC is throwing truckloads of people at cloud-native on-prem storage solutions that are fully compatible with k8s. > Traditional SAN/NAS systems don’t fit this model. Note that EMC SANs have supported the S3 protocol for a while now. Works more or less like S3; just change your endpoint and you’re good to go.