Container Application deployments are growing exponentially, and so as the challenges with container data protection. Users are first worried to ensure the data backup for their deployments. Kubernetes provides data backup features through CSI. Is that sufficient? What are the new demands and challenges? What are the solutions to the challenges? How can we ensure container data backup beyond the CSI supported features? This session tries to answer these questions. Also, it discusses the current state of Kubernetes native data protection solutions.

SODA Foundation is an open source project aimed to foster an ecosystem of open source data management and storage software for data autonomy. SODA Foundation offers a neutral forum for cross-projects collaboration and integration and provides end users quality end-to-end solutions. In this talk, we would like to provide a brief overview of the foundation including our background, mission, and objective. We will introduce and demonstrate the architecture of our core projects and how they interwork with each other.

According to IDC forecast, global data will almost double in 3 years and 90% of the data generated is unstructured data which comes in many forms such as documents, videos, images, audio, IOT data, etc. The difficulty of managing the different forms of unstructured data exacerbated by myriads of interfaces and technologies in hybrid multi-cloud environments lead to data sprawl which is one of the major pain points for any organization.