Use CBS as persistent storage on AKS via Portworx CSI driver
Hi all, with the recent version of Portworx CSI driver (v25.4.0) you can mount a persistent block volume on CBS into your containers on Kubernetes and utilize all features and benefits of CBS. Sharing my recent blog post, how to set it up on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS): https://blog.vjirovsky.cz/portworx-csi-with-aks-with-cbs/
March 2025 | Cloud Block Store Updates!
What’s new in Pure Cloud Block Store CBS 6.8.4 released This version is bringing multiple Purity OS improvements shared across on-premise FlashArray and Pure Cloud Block Store. For more details, please refer to Purity Release Notes. Tip of the Month For CBS documentation requests, you can use a new workflow available directly from this Slack channel. Just click Workflows on top of the window - select Cloud Documentation Request - fill out the form, and we’ll take care of the rest. Blogs Pure Cloud Block Store with Cirrus Migrate Cloud, part 1 - read here Pure Cloud Block Store with Cirrus Migrate Cloud, part 2 - read here Podcasts Purely Cloud episode 4 - Living with Pure Cloud Block Store - listen here Purely Cloud episode 5 - Bridging Worlds with Azure VMware Solution - listen hereAWS Elastic VMware Service with Pure Storage Cloud Block Store (Webinar Overview)
This week's "Clear the Path to VMware in AWS" webinar was very insightful. I wrote a post about it on my blog. Here is the link: https://dmitrywashere.github.io/data/cloud/aws/evs/cbs/purestorage/2025/09/06/pure-vmware-aws.html Let me know your thoughts.Purely Cloud Podcast - CBS on Azure Technical Deep Dive
Together with vjirovsky we hosted a podcast episode where we discussed CBS on Azure architecture and best practices. Have a listen here: https://soundcloud.com/user-917746545/purely-cloud-guest-series-cbs-on-azure-technical-deep-dive-and-deployment-best-practicesCBS 6.8.7 released
This version brings several updates to Cloud Block Store on both AWS and Azure. Automatic Capacity Upgrade for CBS on Azure enables customers to automatically increase total CBS capacity by adding additional storage to the array when total used storage capacity reaches the threshold of 80%. Along with the Automatic Capacity Upgrade, we released Selectable Initial Capacity, which allows customers to choose the array capacity during initial deployment. Starting from this release it’s possible to configure NVMe-TCP connection between CBS on AWS and AWS Linux based native VMs. NVMe-TCP is seen as the modern successor to iSCSI for block storage, particularly for workloads demanding high performance. Both CBS AWS and CBS Azure now support over-the-wire encryption capability for arrays that are replicating using synchronous connections, adding to the existing support for encrypted asynchronous replication. For more details, please refer to Purity Release Notes.
