Provider of IT infrastructure solution DH2i has unveiled DxEnterprise (DxE) version 22 that introduces a new container sidecar to enable application-level high availability (HA) clustering for stateful containers in Kubernetes (K8s).
According to DH2i, Kubernetes is one of the leading open-source systems for automating deployment, scaling and management of containerised applications.
The DxE v22 sidecar delivers a separate container that can run alongside an application container in a Kubernetes pod, explains Don Boxley, CEO and co-founder of DH2i.
For database architects and developers the DxE sidecar delivers three key deployment benefits, namely isolation, quick deployment, and scalability.
The primary application can run independently in one container while the DxE sidecar hosts complementary HA clustering services which can help to isolate failures.
It is easy to deploy a DxE sidecar container and to build and maintain a combined primary application or DxE container image.
Finally, once the DxE sidecar containers are in place, it's easy to scale up to support as many pods as needed, Boxley says.
“With the DxE v22 sidecar, database architects and developers can enhance and extend the functionality of their K8s environment. For instance, the DxE sidecar enables users to create highly resilient Zero downtime application-level clusters that span K8 pods,” he adds.
Moreover, the sidecar provides smart HA clustering services to the application container or containers necessary for critical applications.
“In addition, for medium and large organisations running SQL Server, database-level HA has traditionally been provided by SQL Server Availability Groups. However, SQL Server AGs have not been supported in Kubernetes until recently,” says Boxley.
This has hampered entities’ ability to undergo digital transformations, but DH2i belives DxEnterprise support for containers helps to address this problem.
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