About This Documentation

Hammerspace makes it easy to deploy and scale stateful applications in any Kubernetes cluster, in any cloud. Any storage can become cloud-native and accessible to containerized applications in multiple Kubernetes clusters. Additionally, persistent data is always available—with full enterprise data protection and governance, no matter where containers live.

Hammerspace makes this possible by providing an abstraction layer that virtualizes data everywhere in your environment under a single, active-active, geo-spanning namespace. Anvil instances (Hammerspace metadata services) replicate metadata across all Kubernetes clusters, allowing the platform to ensure that the data appears in the same way across any and every cluster, without the need to actually copy the data. It also ensures that whatever storage is supporting that cluster—regardless of vendor or type or location—is managed appropriately for the requirements of the containers orchestrated by that cluster.

This architecture brings together the complete set of capabilities needed to bring persistent data to multi-cluster Kubernetes. Scaling containerized workloads for databases and other stateful applications across clusters becomes simple and fully automated, even in full production environments, so that DevOps teams are empowered to do more with data.

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