Generally Available: Azure Container Storage for Ephemeral (Local NVMe/Temp SSD) and Azure Disk

You can now use Azure Container Storage to run production level stateful container workloads. Azure Container Storage orchestrates the placement and lifecycle of persistent volumes (PV) on your behalf, simplifying container storage management and optimizing for scalability, flexibility, and cost efficiency. Tightly integrated with Kubernetes, it allows you to perform all storage operations via the Kubernetes API, such as creating PVs and scaling up capacity on demand, eliminating the need to interact with control plan APIs of the underlying storage infrastructure. With our general availability, two backing storage options are fully supported:

• Ephemeral disk (Local NVMe/Temp SSD): With the Ephemeral disk backing storage option, you can take advantage of the local storage that comes with your nodes. For instance, workloads requiring low latencies could benefit from locally attached storage. You can also enable replication on your local NVMe storage to experience added resiliency.
• Azure Disk: Azure Disk storage option lets you choose from Ultra, Premium SSD, Premium SSD v2, and Standard SSD disk types to back your storage pool. With Azure Container Storage, your PVs are optimally placed on your disk - mapping multiple volumes to a disk, overcoming traditional persistent volume scale limitations, and saving you storage costs in the long run.

Get started today with installing Azure Container Storage to your AKS cluster! For a comprehensive guide, watch our step-by-step walkthrough video. You can also explore workload samples from our newly launched community repository to create your first stateful application. To learn more, read the Azure blog and technical community blog refer to the documentation.