US Patent 11861221 Providing scalable and reliable container-based storage services

Providing scalable and reliable container-based storage services, including: deploying a containerized storage controller on a first node among of plurality of nodes operable to support execution of the containerized storage controller; associating a dataset stored in backing storage accessible by the first node with one or more virtualized volumes presented by the containerized storage controller; and providing, by the containerized storage controller to one or more client hosts, a set of storage services for the one or more virtualized volumes.