IBM Storage Plug-in for Flocker

IBM Storage Plug-in for Flocker is a block storage driver, allowing IBM storage systems to be used for persistent block storage.

The plug-in package can be downloaded from Spectrum Control Base and can then be deployed on Flocker nodes.

Through the IBM® Storage Plug-in for Flocker, storage volumes are provisioned from an external IBM storage to Docker containers, allowing the use of the containers with stateful microservices, such as database applications (MongoDB, PostgreSQL etc). Storage provisioning can be fully automatized with additional support of cluster orchestration systems to automatically deploy, scale and manage containerized applications.

Taking full advantage of the flexible service-based storage provisioning model in Spectrum Control Base, the Storage Plug-in for Flocker offers profiles per storage resource. This allows defining specific capabilities per profile and creating a storage volume according to these requirements.

To visualize how Flocker interface is integrated in a virtualized environment, see Concept diagrams.