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
The birth of August is reason enough to be happy. Cooler temperatures are just around the corner (hopefully) and tennis fans are already counting down to the US Open. As always, there is one thing that I look forward to when August comes calling: a new release of...
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...
Blast off to Jupyter with the NetApp Data Science Toolkit (featuring BeeGFS)
Starting in v1.2.1 the NetApp Data Science Toolkit (DSTK) for Kubernetes officially supports BeeGFS. While some parallel file systems get a bad reputation for being overly complicated to manage, BeeGFS was designed to deliver a simpler experience without compromising...
Installing NetApp Trident on Red Hat OpenShift – How to solve the Docker ‘toomanyrequests’ issue!
On November 20, 2020 Docker modified their policy by introducing pull rate limits for anonymous and free tier accounts. With this change in policy , the container image pull requests have been limited to 100 for anonymous users and 200 for free tier users every 6...
Monitor all of your ONTAP clusters with Harvest (easy mode)
Harvest2 is out now and to help celebrate we have a super easy way for you to set it up. While you can still setup your own Prometheus, Grafana, and install Harvest on your own, you don’t have to. Let me show you how (here) That Git repo has everything you need to...
Announcing the release of Harvest2.
The Harvest team is excited to announce the release of Harvest2 21.05. With this release the core of Harvest has been completely rewritten in Go. Harvest2 is a replacement for the older versions of Harvest 1.6 and below. If you're using one of the Harvest 2.x release...
Trident 21.04 – Fully Vaccinated
Trident v21.04 is GA today. Here’s the breakdown of all the features and improvements available with the latest release: Create and manage Trident backends with kubectl You can now manage Trident backends directly through the Kubernetes interface using...
Taking advantage of shared lookups – Advanced Topic
If you haven’t been made aware, playbooks are now being published to https://www.github.com/netapp-automation/ansible for anyone to use. Most of the playbooks being posted are what I call lookups. Lookups use the na_ontap_info module to pull information about one or...
Tackling diverse workloads with BeeGFS in Kubernetes
The BeeGFS CSI Driver enables data scientists to build Kubernetes AI pipelines capable of provisioning and consuming BeeGFS file system storage. But applications in different pipeline steps often use different IO patterns and require different storage characteristics....
Separating tasks in playbooks using tags
Sometimes it is useful to create a single playbook or role that does multiple steps, but not steps you want to run every time. You can use ‘tags’ to only include or exclude certain tasks in a playbook. To look at this concept I will use a playbook for creating...
Trident support for OCP 3.11 is ending soon – Plan your OCP upgrades today!
As Kubernetes continues to grow at light speed, one thing is sure: there is always going to be a new release around the corner that customers need to evaluate. Whether it be a new cluster or one that is already handling production workloads, deploying a new version of...
Wilkommen 2021! – Trident 21.01, new features, and more
With every New year comes a new release! Trident 21.01 is available today, and this marks our 39th release to date. The latest version comes with a host of significant updates to satisfy your fix for new and useful features. Here’s what’s new: Certificate-based...
Easy AI dataset-to-model traceability with the NetApp Data Science Toolkit
A data scientist will often modify their training dataset many times as they iterate through different training runs, using different normalization techniques, hyperparameters, etc. This can become a problem if the data scientist ever needs to revert back to a...
Accelerating the AI training workflow with the NetApp Data Science Toolkit
The NetApp Data Science Toolkit is a Python program that makes it simple for data scientists and data engineers to perform advanced data management tasks. This Python program can function as either a command line utility or a library of functions that can be imported...