Trident Adds Cloud Volumes Service for AWS to its Repertoire
We all know and love Trident. It makes provisioning volumes for containers a snap. After a simple Trident setup in a Kubernetes environment, a developer only needs to create a persistent volume claim and call it from their deployment/application. Trident does the rest...
NetApp Encrypted Credentials with Ansible Tower
In a previous post I showed how the ansible-vault can be used to keep passwords secure. What about those locations that only get access to Ansible Tower, and aren’t able to run ansible-vault? We are going to go through the steps to use the Tower credentials to...
Deploying StorageGRID in a Kubernetes Cluster
NetApp’s StorageGRID object store is very easy to use, but it can be challenging to get all of the right infrastructure together to deploy it, especially if you just want to try it out. But under the covers it’s built and deployed as container images, and recent...
Soup-to-Nuts Ansible Module Testing
Sites trying to move into a DevOps model often want to implement a Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Deployment (CD) process. This can be challenging without any frames of reference. For our Ansible development we use such a process and want to share that with...
Installing Trident for Kubernetes from a Private Registry
To mitigate risks, many organizations today implement strict security policies. Those policies may limit direct internet access, blocking connections to public software repositories like container image registries. This can make it challenging to install software that...
Can you keep a secret?
As I have mentioned in the past, the normal way of commutation for Ansible, SSH, is not possible with the NetApp systems. We use http and https communications. This however requires a username and password combination for each task run. Interactive playbooks can...
Just the facts ma’am.
One of the things about Ansible that makes it so useful, is its ability to gather information about a system that can then be used in the tasks you run. Because of how the NetApp modules work, this feature isn’t core to them. However, for ONTAP there is the...
Understanding volume migration on OpenStack: Intercluster volume migration
Welcome to the final part in this three-part series on Cinder volume migration. So far, we have explored the basics of migrating volumes and the migration of a volume between backends that reside on the same cluster. In this post, we extend the concept of moving...
Understanding volume migration on OpenStack: Intracluster volume migration
In part two of this series, we will look at an example scenario, where a volume is migrated between backends that lie on the same cluster. In case you haven’t been through part 1 already, you should definitely do so and obtain a general overview of Cinder volume...
Understanding volume migration on OpenStack
One of the cool features offered by OpenStack is the migration of Cinder volumes across backends. Volumes can be moved within an ONTAP cluster, between ONTAP clusters and between an ONTAP and SolidFire cluster. The good thing about migrating volumes is that the...
Introducing Trident v18.10
How time flies! The Trident team has had a busy summer cooking up some great content for you. And today we’re happy to present our latest release: 18.10. We bet you can’t wait to find out what’s inside, so let’s get right into it! Volume Resizing in Kubernetes As one...
Getting Started with NetApp and Ansible: Complete Workflow
Automation and configuration management are indispensable to an efficient DevOps driven environment. NetApp supports Ansible modules for ONTAP and Element software. So, let’s get right to it and see how all this worksby building a complete workflow while adding in...
Getting Started with NetApp and Ansible: First Playbook Example
Automation and configuration management are indispensable to an efficient DevOps driven environment. NetApp supports Ansible modules for ONTAP and Element software. So, let’s get right to it and see how all this works. First Playbook Example Now that we have...
Getting Started with NetApp and Ansible: Understanding Playbooks
Automation and Configuration Management are indispensable to an efficient DevOps driven environment. NetApp supports Ansible modules for ONTAP and Element software . So, let’s get right to it and see how all this works. Understanding Playbooks Now that we have...
Demo Videos for Common Trident Installation and Configuration Environments
Hello and welcome! You are at the right place to get started with Trident. Trident is a simple, yet powerful dynamic provisioner that integrates with Kubernetes Persistent Volume framework and provides a unified interface for storage provisioning from NetApp ONTAP,...
Getting Started with NetApp and Ansible: Updating NetApp Modules
Automation and Configuration Management are indispensable to an efficient DevOps driven environment. NetApp has supported Ansible modules for ONTAP and Element software. So, let’s get right to it and see how all this works! Update NetApp Modules Occasionally, there...
Getting Started with NetApp and Ansible: Install Ansible
Automation and Configuration Management are indispensable to an efficient DevOps driven environment. NetApp has supported Ansible modules for ONTAP and Element software. So, let’s get right to it and see how all this works. Part 1. Install Ansible If you don’t have...
My Name is Rocky
The Rocky release of OpenStack went public on August 28th and NetApp® is proud to have contributed in its development. NetApp continues to cement its place as a leading storage solutions provider for OpenStack and has added the following new features in Cinder and...