Using Ansible to gather information with the REST info module
With the changes from ZAPI to REST in the API for ONTAP, the majority of all our modules are being updated to handle both, so almost no changes to your playbooks will be necessary. There are two exceptions to this though. That is the na_ontap_info and...
Automatically mount newly-cloned workspaces using the NetApp DataOps Toolkit
Developers and data scientists frequently use NetApp's volume cloning technology to clone development workspaces almost instantaneously. This can lead to operational challenges as end users often don't have superuser privileges and, thus, are not able to run a mount...
BeeGFS CSI driver v1.2.0 – Simplifying deployment to OpenShift with an operator
The 1.2.0 version of the BeeGFS CSI driver is here! It brings a number of small enhancements, progress towards supporting a new container orchestrator, and a huge new feature. Some highlights include: Support for newer versions of Kubernetes, BeeGFS, and now Red Hat...
I am thankful for a new Harvest release
The Harvest team is happy to announce the release of 21.11. In preparing for when ZAPI is removed from ONTAP, the Harvest team has begun the process of adding REST access to the collectors. This is an important feature to add so that you can continue to utilize and...
Astra Trident v21.10: 2021 is a wrap! (Well, almost)
October is now almost up and that means another Astra Trident release is now GA! Trident v21.10.0 is now available to download on our GitHub website and contains the following new features and fixes: Configure unixPermissions on CVS-GCP Performance volumes:...
Harvest2 version 21.08 release
The Harvest2 team is pleased to announce the release of version 21.08. With this release two of the most outstanding new features are; the addition of seven new dashboards; and a native to Harvest2 Docker deployment method. You can read about all the steps and new...
How To Guide – Setting up AWX on a single host
AWX the OpenSource upstream version of Controller (formally called Ansible Tower) has gone through a lot of changes recently. These changes have made the install and setup process much more difficult. The new install method also requires Kubernetes, which not...
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
ANOTHER UPDATE: Trident v21.07.1 is now available. UPDATE: Users are informed that Trident v21.07.0 is NOT AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD. Changes introduced to snapshotReserve with v21.07.0 can result in CSI VolumeSnapshots being unusable to create PersistentVolumeClaim(s)....
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 Astra 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...