by Bala RameshBabu | Oct 30, 2020 | Containers, Trident
As we approach the tail end of 2020, it has been a year of surprises. Some that no one ever saw coming: who would have thought we’d all be working from home for as long as it has been? And others that have been way more pleasant: Project Astra launched its Beta...
by Bala RameshBabu | Oct 7, 2020 | Containers, Kubernetes, Trident
If you haven’t been living under a rock, you have probably heard about Prometheus and Grafana. Both are great tools to implement a monitoring framework that is visually descriptive and powerful. Trident provides a set of Prometheus metrics that you can use to obtain...
by Bala RameshBabu | Aug 3, 2020 | Containers, Docker, Docker Enterprise Edition, FlexVol, Kubernetes, ONTAP
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...
by Bala RameshBabu | Jul 31, 2020 | Cloud Volume Services, Containers, Docker, Docker Enterprise Edition, Element Software, Kubernetes, ONTAP, OpenShift, thePub, 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...
by Bala RameshBabu | Jul 31, 2020 | Cloud Volume Services, Containers, Docker Enterprise Edition, Kubernetes, ONTAP, OpenShift, SolidFire, thePub, Trident
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...
