Developer Velocity with Solid-State Container-Native CI/CD

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Along with it came the challenges of making sure that continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) deployments perform at the highest levels.

Prior to a remote work environment, developers at this Tier 1 firm we worked with used physical servers with fast local NVMe flash to run their routine CI/CD tasks such as compilation, building and local testing.

The main requirements facilitating a move to Kubernetes were defined as follows: A key to overall performance is the storage aspect of this project.

Steady performance is key, and storage is a critical component for this steady performance. Container-native storage systems can remove storage performance concerns with adroit handling of data path issues — and without adding complexity for DevOps leaders who are familiar with Kubernetes.

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