Dealing with the Unexpected
“Unexpected Error”. If you have been using the NetApp Ansible modules and seen this error, you know it can be frustrating as it doesn’t give any useful information. This error is 99.9% of the time one of the following four issues, and I will do my best to explain how...
Trident 19.07 is now GA
Is it August already? Time flies when you are having fun! The Trident team has been hard at work this summer to deliver some great new features in the 19.07 version of Trident, which is now available! Here’s the lowdown on what’s new with Trident 19.07. Azure NetApp...
Running a Playbook Against Multiple ONTAP Clusters
In all the examples we have shared so far, we haven’t been using an inventory file; instead we are simply setting ‘hosts: localhost’. A question I get asked from time to time is “How can a playbook be run against multiple clusters without having to use outside...
Using On-Demand Snapshots with CSI Trident
As you would have already heard, the 19.07 Alpha release is packed with some cool new features, of which Volume Snapshots is an important one. Trident 19.07 Alpha is designed to provide on-demand Volume Snapshots and support the creation of Persistent Volumes...
All New CSI Trident!
Let me introduce the all new CSI Trident, now available with Trident 19.07 Alpha! The Container Storage Interface (CSI) provides a standard to enable provisioners to talk with multiple orchestrators. This is a community effort driven by the Cloud Native Computing...
Welcome to Trident 19.07 Alpha!
This summer, the Trident team has something new to offer! As part of the 19.07 Alpha release, Trident includes the following new features that make it easier to integrate with Kubernetes. It is important to note that the 19.07 Alpha release is meant for...
Extending Kubernetes to Manage Trident’s State
We have been busy this summer making some improvements to Tridents plumbing. With it comes Trident v19.07 Alpha! Two major changes are happening, the introduction of CSI Trident and the introduction of Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRD) for Trident. This...
Simple Made Simpler – Ansible Roles for ONTAP Select
Businesses want simple, automated ways to manage their complex data infrastructure. Ansible makes this easier with features like modules, roles and playbooks. This post discusses the two new Ansible roles that have been published for the ONTAP Select product to help...
Your Monthly Master Class with thePub
DevOps – are you sick of hearing about it yet? Ask three different people what it is and you’ll get three different responses. The fact is, it’s HARD. There is no silver bullet to implementing DevOps, there is no one person who can do it, there is no one solution that...
Bring in the Volumes!
Trident 19.04 has just been released! Volume import is one of the main features included with v19.04. It makes the move to containerized environments and disaster recovery scenarios much easier. What is Volume Import? Volume import provides the ability to...
Ansible Roles Make Day to Day Operations Easier
With Red Hat Summit fast approaching let's take a look at a pair of roles today. In previous posts I have covered day-0 operations with the Cluster Config role, and day-1 operations with the Vserver Create role. Now I will cover the repeated task of creating new...
My Name Is Stein!
The OpenStack community is ready with its latest release! As part of the Stein development cycle, NetApp is proud to have contributed in the development of Cinder and Manila. The Stein release includes the following feature enhancements that support the integration of...
How to Install and Use Trident with Docker EE 2.1 Universal Control Plane and Kubernetes
Every day, containerization is becoming a more integral part of IT planning and strategy. The container platform you choose should be able to manage various workloads. Docker Enterprise 2.1 Universal Control Plane (UCP) is one enterprise container platform providing...
Creating Vservers is Even Easier with Roles
I discussed adding NetApp roles and making them available in this post. If you haven’t read that one, please take a moment to read it as it covers the installation and configuration settings to make these roles usable. Much like the Cluster Config role allowed for...
Tenant Data Isolation with Trident
Kubernetes makes managing applications very easy and flexible. Pods can be deployed anywhere, on your local PC for testing, on-prem or in the cloud at anytime. Kubernetes can guarantee a certain number of pods are deployed and running at any given time, and may even...
Simplicity at its finest, Roles for Ansible ONTAP use
Ansible makes the management of NetApp systems easy. Sometimes, though, groups don’t have the time or inclination to create their own playbooks. Ansible has a solution that can ease this issue, it is called roles. An Ansible role is a collection of playbooks,...
Backup & Restore Trident etcd using etcdctl with ONTAP
The etcd database is crucial to NetApp’s Trident storage orchestrator. It stores all backends, storage classes, and volume information used by Trident. This information is necessary to create Persistent Volumes and attach to the backend storage. But what if the data...
Using Ansible Roles to Drive a Full DevOps Workspace Create and Refresh
There is a lot of buzz around DevOps these days often leading to confusion. I hear people asking, “What is DevOps?”, “How do I do DevOps?”, “What do I need for DevOps?”. Everyone needs to go faster these days. AWS puts out over 10,000 changes a DAY! A DevOps...