The Dell Validated Design for Analytics — Modern Data Stack is built on a container platform. This approach provides agility, flexibility, and scalability while supporting diverse analytics workloads.
The container platform abstracts the machine level details and host operating system dependencies, exposing them as a pool of compute, storage, and communications resources. The platform also provides application orchestration capabilities to streamline the deployment and management of analytics workloads.
Applications on the platform use the industry standard Open Container Initiative (OCI) image format. The images include all the required software components, isolating them from operating system dependencies. These images are run in containers, providing a high level of run-time isolation from other applications.
Analytics workloads are packaged into application bundles that combine application images and deployment specifications. The bundles simplify application launching and specification of resource requirements.
The container platform is Symcloud Platform, which is based on Kubernetes.