Robin Cloud Native Storage for Microsoft AKS

High-performance storage and application-aware data management for AKS

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Simplified data management with enterprise-grade protection

Standard Kubernetes operator that provides high performance block and file storage
Runs natively on AKS and installs within 5 minutes
Simplifies data management operations such as snapshot, backup, and clone
Ensures application portability across AKS and other K8s distros

Use cases for Robin CNS on AKS

Standard Kubernetes storage across AKS and other Kubernetes distros

Deliver standard storage and data management experience across AKS and other Kubernetes distros. Developers find it easy to automate workflows with standard APIs for storage and data management across platforms.

Back up entire applications on Azure Blob

Protect entire applications (data+metadata+config) with backups to Azure Blob object store. Recover entire applications, including data, with a single command in the event of data corruption or cluster failure.

Application portability across AKS and other Kubernetes

Easily move complex stateful applications among AKS and other K8s distributions on-premise and on public clouds. Moving entire apps across clusters is completely automated by Robin CNS, making it easy to export/import applications with a single command.

Dev/test collaboration across regions

Collaborate across geographies and teams by cloning entire application environments (data+metadata+config) in minutes. This helps free up valuable time across your Dev and QA teams and makes them more productive.

Quick application time-travel

User accidently deleted data? Or just want to see what your data looked at a prior date? Want to checkpoint your entire app before upgrades or new experiments? Robin CNS provides application-aware snapshots to help you quickly rollback to a previous point-in-time.

Why customers choose Robin CNS for AKS

Deploy within minutes
  • Robin CNS installs natively on AKS. It pools all available Azure Disks together to create an enterprise-grade block and file storage solution within minutes.
Always-on applications with HA/DR
  • Robin CNS provides synchronous replication across failover domains on AKS (such as disks, nodes, and availability zones) for HA. For DR, it provides asynchronous replication between active and standby AKS clusters.
Best-in-class performance
  • Robin CNS delivers up to 2X better performance than competition and provides performance tuning features such as data locality, I/O hotspot detection, live data rebalancing, and advanced placement policies.
Improved developer productivity
  • Robin CNS automates storage and data management operations on AKS and provides a simple API for developers and DevOps teams. DevOps teams can easily manage stateful applications without having to become storage experts.

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