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.
The container platform used in this validated design is Red Hat OpenShift. The implementation details are described in Container platform implementation. Analytics workloads are packaged and distributed using standard Kubernetes methods including images, Helm charts, and operators.