Intel White Paper Intel® Optane™ PMem CSI Operator for Containers

White Paper Intel® Optane™ persistent memory Container Storage

Streamlined Implementation of High- Performance Container Storage Development organizations can deploy stateful applications in containers using the Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory (PMem) CSI Operator to expose high- performance container storage. To streamline and automate implementation, the open source code is available either as a Kubernetes operator or as a certified Red Hat® Open Shift® operator, which is provided through the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog. This paper introduces Intel PMem CSI and the role of operators in enabling control path operational agility and scale. Table of Contents Enterprise containers are a key enabling technology for digital transformation and

Container Storage Based on the migration to cloud-native infrastructure. They decouple software workloads Intel Optane PMem . from the underlying hardware, allowing all application dependencies to be bundled up in the container package, enabling them to traverse multiple clouds while being

Unprecedented Flexibility in

centrally orchestrated. This architecture enables IT organizations to realize the full

Memory-Storage Architectures .

agility, flexibility, elasticity, and benefits of cloud computing, as well as both Op Ex

Industry-Standard,

and Cap Ex advantages by paying for resources on an as-needed basis.

Open Programming Model .

Enabling the New Container Beyond simply packaging software for cloud deployment, cloud-native computing Storage Tier . requires software to be designed explicitly for the cloud to attain the model’s full benefit. Software architectures must place a premium on lightweight design

Standardized Storage Access

to enable software-defined networking to spin container-based services up and

with Intel Optane PMem CSI .

down on demand with maximum performance and scalability. The following cloud-

Containerized Access to Intel Optane

native principles enable development organizations to improve their ability to

Persistent Memory .

serve the business with cost-effective, high-quality container-based solutions that

Installing Intel Optane PMem

accelerate time-to-production for new capabilities and services:

CSI with a Kubernetes Operator .

• Microservices are small, discrete modular units of software functionality that

Integrating and Automating with

communicate among themselves on a shared fabric to instantiate composite

Red Hat® Open Shift® .

applications in aggregate.

Conclusion .

More Information • Dev Ops practices enable software development teams to automate code, debug, test, and release processes as a unified whole, increasing quality, efficiency, and deterministic repeatability. • Continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) consists of making many frequent software releases (even multiple times per day), increasing the pace of change while reducing its incremental impact. The adoption of application containers continues to accelerate. This rapid transition to delivering network functionality using cloud-native software extends the historical transition from rigid, single-purpose architectures to flexible ones built for dynamic environments, as illustrated in Figure 1.