AUSTIN, Texas -- As IT shops adopt containers, stateful apps and container persistent storage are the elephants in the room. #Docker container persistent storage has supplanted container security as the top challenge for the technology in enterprise data centers. Several startups have blossomed with approaches to persistent distributed storage systems, but enterprise uptake remains in its infancy.
"Storage is a huge problem. It's a concern for everybody," said Ray Krueger, VP of engineering at Hyatt Hotels.
The recent demise of one such startup, #ClusterHQ, weighed on the minds of IT pros at this year's DockerCon, here this month, as other new vendors hawked their wares. ClusterHQ's open source utility, #Flocker, allowed external storage volumes to retain their connection with container workloads as containers stopped and started. However, the firm struggled to maintain its business under an open source software license model.
Flocker remains a viable open source project, but IT pros are now hesitant to embrace it.
"Without ClusterHQ championing it, I don't know where we're going to go," Krueger said.
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