1.0.0 – Versatile Kubernetes Platform
Shines best when compute and storage are together within unified HCI nodes of your Kubernetes cluster.
What is Sarkan?
It’s a Kubernetes Hyper Converged Data Platform that provides a distributed, scalable, fault-tolerant, highly available and Kubernetes-way fully managed storage.
What is Sarkan?
It’s a Kubernetes Hyper Converged Data Platform that provides a distributed, scalable, fault-tolerant, highly available and Kubernetes-way fully managed storage.
What Makes Kubernetes Management So Challenging?
Lack of Native Storage
Traditional environments often lack a native, integrated data storage solution, complicating management and hindering scaling.
System Vulnerability to Failures
A single disk or node failure can lead to immediate downtime for the entire application and loss of critical functionality.
Potential Risk of Data Loss
Insufficient data replication exposes your critical information to a high risk of loss in case of unforeseen system failures.
Inefficient Manual Management
Relying on manual processes such as NFS-based management often leads to wasted time, increased risk of failure, and operational inefficiencies.
Complex Storage Scaling
Effective scaling of mass storage traditionally requires the involvement of a large and highly qualified team of IT specialists.
Application Migration Issues
Migrating applications between nodes often involves the risk of losing valuable local data, hindering flexibility and operational continuity.
Sarkan is the Answer to Your Kubernetes management needs
It can be used with any Kubernetes flavour. It comes with build-in SaunaFS and It is designed to take full advantage of both Kubernetes and SaunaFS.
Provides standard Kubernetes management and automates SaunaFS tasks like configuration, scaling, deployment, upgrades, and disk management — all directly from Kubernetes.
Enables creating storage from disks across multiple servers for use within Kubernetes clusters, sharing between clusters, or general use outside Kubernetes.
The solution essentials: What makes Sarkan work flawless?
Sarkan Operators
These components integrate SaunaFS with Kubernetes, focusing on security and performance:
SaunaFS CSI – provides SaunaFS storage as persistent volumes in Kubernetes.
SaunaFS Operator – manages and scales SaunaFS services.
Hostdisk CSI – handles node-attached disks across the cluster.
Metrics Exporter – exposes Prometheus metrics
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open source platform for managing containerized workloads and services, that facilitates both declarative configuration and automation. It has a large, rapidly growing ecosystem. Kubernetes services, support, and tools are widely available.
Sauna FS
SaunaFS is a robust, distributed POSIX file system written in C++, designed for high efficiency, security, and reliability. It supports both small-scale and large-scale data management, making it ideal for data-driven enterprises. With features like data immutability, security analysis, and easy scalability, SaunaFS offers a powerful, flexible storage solution.
Sarkan Operators
These components integrate SaunaFS with Kubernetes, focusing on security and performance:
SaunaFS CSI – provides SaunaFS storage as persistent volumes in Kubernetes.
SaunaFS Operator – manages and scales SaunaFS services.
Hostdisk CSI – handles node-attached disks across the cluster.
Metrics Exporter – exposes Prometheus metrics
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open source platform for managing containerized workloads and services, that facilitates both declarative configuration and automation. It has a large, rapidly growing ecosystem. Kubernetes services, support, and tools are widely available.
Sauna FS
SaunaFS is a robust, distributed POSIX file system written in C++, designed for high efficiency, security, and reliability. It supports both small-scale and large-scale data management, making it ideal for data-driven enterprises. With features like data immutability, security analysis, and easy scalability, SaunaFS offers a powerful, flexible storage solution.
Curious to see more? Uncover Sarkan’s full potential
01. Scalability and High performance
02. No vendor lock-in and Flexibility
03. Advanced and unique storage features
Build-in highly available, redundant and scalable SaunaFS storage with CRC data integrity, Copy-on-Write Snapshots and Fast Metadata Performance. Kubernetes components provide read-write mounts of persistent volume on multiple Kubernetes nodes (ReadWriteMany). Mount corruption detection and recovery, cluster split-brain scenario prevention, automated physical and/or virtual disks management and self-healing of all components.
04. Security and Multi-tenancy
Create separate storage and compute resources with Kubernetes namespaces. SaunaFS clusters can use dedicated nodes or just disks, available within a single Kubernetes cluster. Protect volumes and data with permissions, multiple erasure coding levels, instant atomic, Copy-on-Write snapshots (do not require clones) for users and ransomware protection. Protect infrastructure, services and data from SPoF.
05. Cost-efficiency & Reduced CapEx and OpEx
It requires less hardware so it brings energy consumption and emissions of the data center down. Fewer components lower the complexity and time needed for management. Depending on use case your cost can be reduced even further thanks to our simple, competitive pricing based on node count and total: capacity.
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