Ensuring that only authorized applications and users can access Kubernetes volumes provisioned by Trident is obviously a paramount concern. It’s one of the first deeper conversations we tend to have with anyone planning a deployment. The good news is that Kubernetes and Trident work together to provide highly secure persistence, provided that you follow these … Read more
Undeniably, Ansible helps you spend less time managing the configuration of your datacenter by grouping tasks together into a single playbook, configurations can be deployed across a variety of systems simply and easily. NetApp’s new and improved Ansible modules for ONTAP allow configuration management and automation of all ONTAP9 systems using Ansible. NetApp and Ansible … Read more
StorageGRID Webscale 11 now supports native integration into the AWS cloud. This includes cross-region replication to AWS S3 using CloudMirror, triggering of notifications to Simple Notification Service (via SNS), as well as metadata streaming into Elasticsearch for search capability. Introduction With Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) being “the internet’s hard drive”, many younger companies already … Read more
I am happy to share with you the publishing of the second document of the FlexPod SolidFire with Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 – Cisco Validated Design (CVD) solution. Paired with its partner Design Guide, this CVD enables an enterprise-grade OpenStack deployment, in an accelerated fashion, with little risk. Deployment Guide (NEW) – is a … Read more
Ansible users rejoice. Today NetApp is proud to announce the release of 33 new and updated ONTAP modules for Ansible. Ansible is an open source IT automation framework, initiated and managed by Red Hat, which acts as a layer for connecting automation across DevOps services and tooling. It was created to help developers and IT … Read more
Introduction This quick example shows how we can update the bucket access policy in StorageGRID in order to allow anonymous access. This allows access to the bucket without S3 credentials, e.g. through a browser. Instructions In this example, we utilize s3cmd to connect to StorageGRID Webscale. In order to get s3cmd talking to StorageGRID, update … Read more
Hi everyone! We are on the heels of a jam-packed spring of conferences! What’s our lineup? KUBECON – Copenhagen RED HAT SUMMIT – San Francisco OPENSTACK SUMMIT – Vancouver DevOps Enterprise Summit – London May 2nd – May 4th: We will kick off with Kubecon at Scandinavia’s largest conference, congress and exhibition space – THE … Read more
Leaves are back on the trees, flowers are blooming, pollen is in the air! As the saying goes, April showers bring Trident releases, and we are very happy to announce that Trident 18.04 is now available! Take your allergy pill, change the oil in your lawn mower, and come see what’s new and exciting! Completely … Read more
Since the earliest days of ONTAP, snapshots have been a feature which has played a significant role in providing point-in-time recovery options for data which has been lost or corrupted accidentally. They are instant, space efficient, and, when the snapshot directory is turned on for the volume, provide the application or user a way to … Read more
StorageGRID Webscale provides highly scalable S3-compatible object storage. One system can be composed of hundreds of StorageGRID Webscale nodes deployed across Docker, VMWare, engineered systems (appliances), and even in the cloud. StorageGRID Webscale 11.0 makes managing heterogenous nodes easier by introducing a new metrics database engine that collects system and services level attributes and makes … Read more