Once the networking options are defined for Containers as described in Chapter 3, another essential service is storage. Container storage is ephemeral by design. Initially, Containers were designed for immutable and stateless workloads. Later, the advantages of containerizing stateful applications became apparent. With that came the need to support persistent storage. A similar paradigm happened with Kubernetes; initially, it was designed for stateless applications, but it was rapidly extended to support stateful workloads. Supporting these new types of workloads drove the need to support ...
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