by Diane Patton | Mar 26, 2019 | Containers, DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, ONTAP, 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...
by David Blackwell | Mar 25, 2019 | Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, ONTAP, Playbooks
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,...
by Jacob Andathethu | Mar 12, 2019 | Containers, ONTAP, OpenShift, Trident
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...
by David Blackwell | Mar 5, 2019 | Configuration Management
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...
