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Running mission-critical applications in the public cloud is gaining popularity as businesses adopt the benefits of cloud operations, including agility, ease of use, security, a robust set of software tools and services, and dynamic scale.
Dell APEX Block Storage for Azure brings to the public cloud the advantages of scale, performance, and a robust feature set, including local and remote replication, high availability (HA), resiliency, and security.
The scale-out design of Dell APEX Block Storage for Azure allows for independent storage and compute instances that can be spread across Azure Availability Zones (AZs), providing higher resiliency if an AZ is down. Dell APEX Block Storage for Azure provides a choice of Azure disk storage for more flexibility, or native attached NVMe (Non Volatile Memory Express) SSD drives for increased performance.
Some of the advantages of deploying applications with APEX Block Storage in Azure include:
Cloud native architecture enables modern applications to take advantage of containerization and orchestration. Kubernetes can handle complex environments with capabilities like autoscaling, scheduling, load balancing, resource monitoring, and managing containerized applications.
This whitepaper provides deployment, performance, and best practices of PostgreSQL database on the Kubernetes cluster using the PowerFlex Container Storage Interface (CSI) for dynamic persistent volume provisioning using Dell APEX Block Storage as the underlying software-defined storage layer hosted on Azure VM instances.