Azure Container Storage
Manage persistent storage volumes for stateful container applications.
Manage volumes cost-effectively with diverse storage options
Azure Container Storage is a volume-management service built natively for containers. Create and manage storage volumes for production-scale stateful container applications and run anywhere on Kubernetes.
Fully managed persistent volume deployment and unified volume management for various back-end storage options
Simple and consistent volume orchestration for stateful workloads via the Kubernetes control plane
Efficient allocation of persistent volumes into back-end storage for a lower total cost of ownership (TCO)
Rapid scale out of stateful containers with persistent volumes
Run anywhere and access diverse storage options
Run stateful container applications on Kubernetes anywhere with consistent experiences across environments. Attain seamless uniformity across volume types including ephemeral storage (such as NVMe drives or temporary SSDs on virtual machines), Azure Disk Storage, and Azure Elastic SAN to simplify the deployment of persistent volumes.
Simplify storage volume management in Kubernetes
Deploy and manage persistent storage volumes for stateful container applications in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) such as Cassandra, Kafka, Elastic Search, and more. Integrate volume management capabilities with Kubernetes and provision persistent volumes dynamically for stateful applications.
Economize to save on overall cost
Reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) by efficiently deploying and managing persistent volumes on back-end storage options. Increase disk utilization for stateful workloads to enable dynamic sharing of resources provisioned on the Azure Container Storage pool across all deployed persistent volumes.
Achieve rapid scale out of stateful containers with persistent volumes
Optimize the performance of stateful workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters by accelerating the deployment of stateful containers with persistent volumes and minimizing pod failover time.
Get started with Azure Container Storage
Easily create and manage volumes for production-scale stateful container applications with end-to-end storage management and orchestration. Optimize the performance of stateful workloads on AKS to scale effectively across storage services while providing a cost-effective container-native experience.
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Maximize cost efficiency with Azure Container Storage and pay only for storage used
Start by using the free tier for storage orchestration while experimenting, exploring, or getting started. Upgrade to the standard tier for production, large-scale applications, and mission-critical workloads.
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Azure Container Storage resources and documentation
Documentation
Explore the Azure Container Storage documentation.
Quickstart: User Azure Container Storage with AKS.
Blog and updates
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Community and Azure support
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Frequently asked questions about Azure Container Storage
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Azure Container Storage supports only Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) today. Deploy and manage volumes consistently across various backend storage options such as local storage and persistent block storage while using AKS.
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See the Azure Container Storage quickstart.
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Azure Container Storage is built natively for containers and provides a storage solution that is highly optimized for creating and managing volumes for running production-scale stateful container applications. It provides better price performance and scalability than the Azure CSI drivers. Additionally, Azure Container Storage supports new block storage types such as ephemeral disks and Elastic SAN which are not supported by Azure CSI drivers. On the other hand, Azure CSI drivers support Azure Files, Azure Blob, and Azure NetApp Files.
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Azure Container Storage supports only ReadWriteOnce workloads today.
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Yes. See the Quickstart to learn how to enable Azure Container Storage in an existing AKS cluster.
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Yes, see here: Scale your stateful apps with Azure Container Storage | Microsoft Learn. You can also check out code samples here: Azure-Samples/azure-container-storage-samples: Azure Container Storage code samples (github.com).