Environments On-Demand

Problem: Can I run your code? Your code will not work on my Server!

As it turns out, the simple question of someone else being able to run your code is a difficult one to answer!

• How do they replicate the env you have computationally?
• How do they replicate the specialised hardware you may have?
• Setting up a production machine is hard work!
• Setting up an on-demand machine is even harder!

Solution: Containers

We all have accepted by now that shipping code to the server is now easy, thanks to containerisation i.e. we can define everything that’s needed in a Dockerfile!

Environments:

Further, these containerised application images can be scheduled, orchestrated and hosted on Kubernetes allowing us to create on-demand application environments using a few YAML manifests which was not that simple with traditional virtualisation stacks. Typical Environment use cases below -

• Environments shared across squads within a tribe that take turns to test the code.
• Environment's reliability help release schedules to meet delivery deadlines.
• Environments that meet regulatory prudential standards e.g., APRA CPS 234.
• Environments that can be integrated with Observability products ++

Challenge:

This brings us to the final challenge in this pursuit of creating environments i.e. Can we create On-demand Environments without additional copy based loading Time and Data Capacity?

Thanks to NetApp technology, the answer is Yes!

• The data could be large AI/ML/LLM/RAG Graph databases in multi TBs while the clone would be near-instantaneous and without additional data capacity.

The K8s YAML for above example can be found at https://www.myexampleapp.com/

Please feel free to reach out here or contact your NetApp representative to understand how NetApp technology can help your org create on-demand environments using Kubernetes integrated persistent storage hosted on-premises, AWS, Azure or GCP.