It doesn’t seem like much can slow the hot pace of container adoption these days, but a lack of persistent storage support for containerized applications could apply the brakes.

Sensing an opportunity to simplify the scale-out and presentation of arrays and servers to the container orchestrator, Pure Storage Inc. developed a tool for developers that allows fleets of FlashArray and FlashBlade products to be consumed through a simple as-a-service application programming interface.

“If you develop a cloud-native application and that’s running on Kubernetes, the ability to support that with the same storage interfaces, the same service-level agreements, move it efficiently, copy it efficiently, and do that on whatever cloud you want, that’s where it gets really cool,” said Anthony Lai-Ferrario (pictured, left), senior product manager at Pure Storage. “Everything that has brought value from our storage software stack we still get access to in a cloud-native environment.”

Lai-Ferrario spoke with Stu Miniman (@stu), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, and guest host Justin Warren (@jpwarren) during the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon event in San Diego, California. He was joined by Shilpi Srivastava (pictured, right), director of product marketing, cloud and cloud-native solutions at Pure Storage, and they discussed the importance of keeping storage seamless for developers and new support for multicloud deployment. (* Disclosure below.)

Making storage easy

Pure Service Orchestrator was rolled out in general availability last year, and it provided an automated solution that federated flash storage together and improved container orchestration integration.

“Our goal at Pure is to help customers modernize their applications while still keeping storage seamless and invisible to application developers,” Srivastava said. “Storage for Kubernetes can be easy. The way we make it simple and invisible is through the automation that we provide.”

In addition to providing products for container orchestration, Pure Storage recently introduced data services designed to provide support in a multicloud world. The company released Cloud Block Store for AWS in September to give users block storage in the public cloud with the same management system as what was available on-premises.

“You can efficiently store backups on Amazon S3, but how do you do an easy, fast restore to actually run your applications there?” Srivastava asked. “With Cloud Block Store, it’s now possible to do that. Customers are going multicloud, and we’re going multicloud with them.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon event. (* Disclosure: Pure Storage Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Pure Storage nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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