Using the IBM Block Storage CSI Driver in a Red Hat OpenShift Environment

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Introduction and concepts

This chapter defines the scope of this publication. It reviews the concepts of containers, container orchestration, and the challenges around managing persistent data storage for container orchestration platforms and environments.

This chapter includes the following topics:

•1.1, “Overview of containers, orchestration, and OpenShift” on page 2

•1.2, “Container persistent data challenges” on page 4

1.1 Overview of containers, orchestration, and OpenShift

Containers are self-contained, packaged, executable units of software ...

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