NetApp Project Astra

2020: Submission of the concept of Project Astra

On April 28, 2020 the Netapp company provided Project Astra: the concept of the program-controlled platform which is developed together with community Kubernetes. An ultimate goal of Project Astra – the most reliable and comfortable platform of a corporate class for storage and data management for Kubernetes which will provide portability of data and programs for cloud-native of applications.

Though the companies worldwide actively pass to Kubernetes, many organizations lack reliable services for work with applications therefore they experience difficulties with providing these applications with the same portability what is present at Kubernetes. However need to conform to the standards set by Chief information officers forces IT departments and the engineers who are responsible for reliability of data management to look for new methods of storage, management, protection and replication of data for the applications which are initially created for a cloud, noted in NetApp.

Project Astra is created in cooperation with developers and operations managers of Kubernetes to help to overcome the existing gap between popularity of containers, required opportunities and the user experience and also capability to provide portability of data. Developing Project Astra, NetApp aims to give to the companies the chance to work freely in any cloud with that type of placement Kubernetes which they selected.

According to the developer, Project Astra uses a basic technology, access to which is provided by partners of Netapp in a public cloud, expanding it at the expense of the integration which is initially put in Kubernetes date services with applications.

NetApp, together with community Kubernetes, works on solutions on improvement of the user experience and expansion of opportunities of Kubernetes for work with the large volume of data. The purpose - creation of the platform which will help users:

• Perform application monitoring locally or in any cloud through any Kubernetes option
• Integrate and integrate management of applications and data
• Use possibilities of Netapp in the field of data management and Kubernetes, as as service, and the built-in functionality
• Expand a possibility of transfer on all workloads.

"Project Astra is an important step to evolutions of services of storage and data management for Kubernetes. We assume the long-term obligation, together with the communities and platforms using them, to work on problem solving, connected with data management in Kubernetes. Project Astra will provide to users the program configured architecture and tool kit which can be connected to any environment of distribution and management of Kubernetes", 'Anthony Lye, the senior vice president and the CEO of division of Netapp Cloud Data Services noted'

Project Astra relies on the experience accumulated by Netapp on providing to clients an opportunity to manage petabytes of container data with the help of Netapp Trident and NetApp Kubernetes Services and focuses special attention on developers and operations managers who look for the innovation approaches to work with containers, emphasized in NetApp.

"For several years Kubernetes became the first choice for the organization of container environments. Nevertheless, we see both high potential, and need of further development. Project Astra provides mobility which is demanded by the professionals who made a choice for benefit of Kubernetes. Working with community and our clients, we aim to make any data managed, protected and postponed", 'Eric Han, the vice president for product management of division of Netapp Cloud Data Services noted'

As of April, 2020 Project Astra is available in the form of a technology demo. The structure of a final product can be changed.