Microservices based architecture for IT applications has been a trend that has fundamentally changed how organizations deliver and manage solutions. Microservices has given rise to the need for a faster and more agile way of doing things and this has led to the emergence of Containers. 
Containers have proven ideal for running stateless applications where they can be started and stopped without any side effects. Consequently, packaging microservices inside containers has become the dominant design. This is all very useful when it comes to simple, stateless services. Things however get a bit more complicated when you have stateful services such as databases. A database implies data persistence and with the deploy/destroy way of doing things, there are several questions which need to be answered.
- How do we enable data persistence for containerized applications?
- Can Stateful applications or services be containerized or are containers only good for stateless applications?
To answer these questions, please join “Containers-and-persistent-storage” meetup’s in a series of events on
26th Oct, 2016 at 6pm PST at VMware’s PROM C Cafe
where Ritesh Shukla from VMware and Eric Han from Portworx discuss the journey so far and what lies ahead for containers and persistent storage.
