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Instant App-Consistent Snapshots on Azure NetApp Files
Moving demanding enterprise applications to the cloud often exposes you to highly complex challenges. Whether you're dealing with performance and latency limitations or developing your own tools to protect critical data, there are serious issues to struggle with. Do...
All Under One Roof: Importing SAN Volumes with ontap-san in Trident
One of the new 20.07 features that I’m interested in is ontap-san imports. For a while now, users of ONTAP clusters have been looking for a way to bring preexisting SAN volumes into their Kubernetes clusters through Trident. Importing existing data stores as...
A Word to the Wise – It Might Be Time to Upgrade Trident
Now is as good a time as ever to move to the latest Trident release. The team is committed to delivering four releases in every calendar year. Each release builds on top of the previous one, providing improved feature support and enhanced capabilities that aim to make...
Summertime Fun In the Sun with Trident 20.07
I always look forward to summer. There’s something about the heat and the long days that makes me realize I failed at keeping up with most of my fitness resolutions from New Year’s. In all fairness, social distancing did play a part this year! That hasn’t deterred the...
Fast Tip: Showcasing Certificate Authentication from Ansible Tower
This previous post showed how to setup and use SSL certificates for authentication instead of a username/password combination. The post mentioned that this can be used with Tower as well. This new post will show the minor updates to a Projects repository that are...
Automating StorageGRID Operations with Ansible
The first release of the Ansible Modules for StorageGRID is centered around automation and orchestration of Day-1 and Day-2 operations. If you’ve been following the many Ansible blog posts here at netapp.io, you will already be familiar with how Ansible makes it easy...
Introducing Ansible Modules for StorageGRID
Step up your Automation game on StorageGRID Performing repetitive tasks can be very boring and can feel like a waste of time. Automating these repetitive tasks can give back teams more time to focus on solving real problems. Which is why we decided to make it easier...
Authenticating Ansible ONTAP Modules with Certificates Instead of Username/Password
One of the most requested features for our Ansible modules has been the ability to not have to use username/password authentication. We are happy to announce that with the release of the NetApp ONTAP Ansible collection 20.6.0 the ability to use certificates for...