Rancher Labs has announced the general availability of Longhorn, their enterprise-grade, cloud-native container storage solution. According to the announcement, “Longhorn directly answers the need for an enterprise-grade, vendor-neutral persistent storage solution that supports the easy development of stateful applications within Kubernetes.”
Longhorn, according to the product website, “delivers a reliable, lightweight and easy-to-use platform that integrates with existing Kubernetes management platforms.” The project, which originally launched in 2017, was contributed to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a sandbox project in 2019. Now that CNCF open source project is generally available.
“As enterprises deploy more production applications in containers, the need for persistent container storage continues to grow rapidly,” said Sheng Liang, CEO at Rancher Labs. Features include: thin-provisioning, snapshots, backup, and restore, non-disruptive volume expansion, Kubernetes CLI integration, standalone UI, and more.
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