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ObjectScale is built as a software-defined, micro-services enabled Kubernetes cluster.
Kubernetes is an open-source container-orchestration system for automating application deployment, scaling, and management. A Kubernetes cluster consists of physical or virtual nodes. ObjectScale is built on Kubernetes clusters using physical server infrastructure. Since the release of ObjectScale version 1.3, ObjectScale supports deployment as an application within a Red Hat OpenShift cluster environment (ObjectScale As An Application) or as a software bundle (ObjectScale Software Bundle) that includes ObjectScale and the necessary Kubernetes and platform management components, or on an ObjectScale XF960 All Flash array appliance (ObjectScale Appliance).