Trident v22.04.0 release announcement
The Astra Trident team is pleased to announce our latest release: v22.04.0. It includes the following enhancements: Unix Permissions with Azure NetApp Files: Azure NetApp Files allows users to change permissions when mounting volumes using the Unix Permissions...
One PVC and two Kubernetes clusters with NetApp Astra Trident
I recently had a discussion with a NetApp customer about the possibility of attaching the same NetApp Astra Trident created ReadWriteMany PVC to multiple Kubernetes (K8s) clusters. This could be for ongoing access to unstructured data that is shared across pods...
Transitioning from ONTAPI(ZAPI) using ONTAPI Usage Reporting Tool
Enterprises are looking to modernize, simplify, and standardize their automation approach with industry-standard APIs. In response, NetApp is shifting from traditional proprietary APIs to industry-standard REST API, adding support for an expansive REST API, starting...
Ansible Module Defaults – The Ansible specific alternative to YAML aliases.
Up until now YAML aliases were the only way to avoid having to retype out all the connection lines for NetApp ONTAP modules, so a playbook looked something like this: --- - hosts: localhost collections: - netapp.ontap vars: login: &login hostname:...
Astra Trident v22.01: New year, New release
2022 is here! According to the Chinese zodiac, this year will be the year of the Tiger. “The Year of the Tiger will be about making big changes. This will be a year of risk-taking and adventure. We’re finding enthusiasm again, both for ourselves and for others....
Using Ansible to gather information with the REST info module
With the changes from ZAPI to REST in the API for ONTAP, the majority of all our modules are being updated to handle both, so almost no changes to your playbooks will be necessary. There are two exceptions to this though. That is the na_ontap_info and...
Automatically mount newly-cloned workspaces using the NetApp DataOps Toolkit
Developers and data scientists frequently use NetApp's volume cloning technology to clone development workspaces almost instantaneously. This can lead to operational challenges as end users often don't have superuser privileges and, thus, are not able to run a mount...
BeeGFS CSI driver v1.2.0 - Simplifying deployment to OpenShift with an operator
The 1.2.0 version of the BeeGFS CSI driver is here! It brings a number of small enhancements, progress towards supporting a new container orchestrator, and a huge new feature. Some highlights include: Support for newer versions of Kubernetes, BeeGFS, and now Red Hat...
I am thankful for a new Harvest release
The Harvest team is happy to announce the release of 21.11. In preparing for when ZAPI is removed from ONTAP, the Harvest team has begun the process of adding REST access to the collectors. This is an important feature to add so that you can continue to utilize and...
Astra Trident v21.10: 2021 is a wrap! (Well, almost)
October is now almost up and that means another Astra Trident release is now GA! Trident v21.10.0 is now available to download on our GitHub website and contains the following new features and fixes: Configure unixPermissions on CVS-GCP Performance volumes:...
Harvest2 version 21.08 release
The Harvest2 team is pleased to announce the release of version 21.08. With this release two of the most outstanding new features are; the addition of seven new dashboards; and a native to Harvest2 Docker deployment method. You can read about all the steps and new...
How To Guide – Setting up AWX on a single host
AWX the OpenSource upstream version of Controller (formally called Ansible Tower) has gone through a lot of changes recently. These changes have made the install and setup process much more difficult. The new install method also requires Kubernetes, which not...
From Trident to Astra Trident
In case you haven’t heard about it already, Trident is now officially Astra Trident. This brings Trident under the Astra portfolio and serves as a step forward to integrate NetApp’s Kubernetes solutions under a single banner. Existing consumers will continue to use...
Astra Trident v21.07 release announcement
ANOTHER UPDATE: Trident v21.07.1 is now available. UPDATE: Users are informed that Trident v21.07.0 is NOT AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD. Changes introduced to snapshotReserve with v21.07.0 can result in CSI VolumeSnapshots being unusable to create PersistentVolumeClaim(s)....
Advanced Topic: Auto Increment Volume Count
There are sites that name all or most of their volumes with the same base name. (Share001, Share002, Share003 or Home001, Home002, Home003). A common question I get asked all the time is , "How to use Ansible to auto create the next X number of volumes in the list?” ...
Ensuring fair usage of parallel file systems in Kubernetes using BeeGFS quotas
In our version 1.1.0 introductory post, we described how the new per Storage Class ownership and permissions configuration feature works in the BeeGFS CSI driver. While this feature is certainly useful on its own, one of its primary motivations was enabling BeeGFS...
Trident E/EF-Series Storage Driver Maintenance Notice
Trident is NetApp’s open-source storage orchestrator for containerized workloads (Docker and Kubernetes distributions), encompassing support for a range of NetApp storage services and platforms on-premises and in the cloud. Today this includes: ONTAP systems,...
BeeGFS CSI driver v1.1.0 – Managing parallel file system permissions in Kubernetes
The initial release of the BeeGFS CSI driver included everything necessary to get started using BeeGFS in Kubernetes, but it left room for improvement in a couple of key areas. The 1.1.0 version (available now) has some important enhancements: A robust set of...