Trident’s Year In Review – CSI, CRDs And A Lot More
As everyone gets back to their daily grind and plan to keep up with their resolutions for 2020 (that’s always fun), 2019 has been an exciting and eventful year. It has been a year to remember for Trident as we continue to innovate with a goal of making storage...
Preparing Tower for Use by Creating a Credential Type and Credential
In a previous post I talked about how to install and run AWX Tower in a Docker stack. In this post I will continue the Tower setup by creating both the Credential Type for ONTAP and a Credential for a Cluster. Let’s start with creating a Credential Type. Log in to...
Getting Started using Tower with AWX
Ansible is a powerhouse of configuration management and can power a lot of automation but add Tower to that and you add so much more. Using Ansible Tower you get Role Based Access Control (RBAC), push button automation, centralized logging and a host of other...
NetApp HCI + NKS: DevOps End-to-End Pipeline – Part 4
In this series of posts, we're covering various aspects of getting started with building a CI/CD Pipeline using NKS with NetApp HCI. In case you missed Part 1 or Part 2 or Part 3. Over the last three posts, we've created a new K8S cluster, deployed Jenkins and...
NetApp HCI + NKS: DevOps End-to-End Pipeline – Part 3
In this series of posts, we're covering various aspects of getting started with building a CI/CD Pipeline using NKS with NetApp HCI. In case you missed Part 1 and Part 2. In this post, we'll configure the Jenkins deployment that was deployed in part 2, build a...
A rose_aggr1_test_vol By Any Other Name
Recently, I have been asked many times how Ansible can help maintain a naming convention when creating volumes, so today I will show a quick example of variable building. Let’s say I want my volume name to be <vserver>_<aggr>_<volume name>, and I...
Trident 19.10 Released!
We are excited to announce that Trident 19.10 has been released and is now available for download. We integrated the Container Storage Interface (CSI) specification earlier this year to stay in lockstep with the community and Trident 19.10 continues to build upon that...
Trident and Disaster Recovery Pt. 4
Trident and Disaster Recovery Workflow Using ONTAP SnapMirror Volume Welcome to the last and final blog of the 4 part series on how to do Trident Disaster Recovery using ONTAP Data Replication Technologies. In this blog, we will be discussing how Trident Disaster...
NetApp HCI + NKS: DevOps End-to-End Pipeline – Part 2
Continued in this series of, we're covering various aspects of getting started with working with NKS on NetApp HCI. In case you missed Part 1. In this post, we'll be covering how to deploy an application to an existing cluster, using the curated Helm charts offered by...
Trident and Disaster Recovery Pt. 3
Disaster Recovery Workflow Using Snapmirror SVM SnapMirror SVM Setup Preparing the SVM for disaster recovery involves preparing the destination cluster, creating the destination SVM, creating the SVM peer relationship, creating a SnapMirror relationship, initializing...
Trident and Disaster Recovery Pt. 2
Trident and Disaster Recovery Workflow Using MetroCluster Welcome to the second installment of Trident and Disaster Recovery using ONTAP Data Replication Technologies. In this blog, we will be discussing a MetroCluster configuration. MetroCluster Setup Configuring...
Your Monthly Master Class with thePub
The DevOps Master Class series is making a triumphant return to thePub *applause*. After a brief hiatus we’re getting back to our bread n’ butter of enlightening the community through education. As was once said on this blog series, “doing DevOps is HARD…. there is no...
Trident and Disaster Recovery Pt. 1
Understanding Different NetApp Data Replication Technologies and DR Best Practices It is important that we understand different disaster recovery methodologies for Trident and stateful containerized applications in the event of a disaster for business continuance....
Using Cloud Manager to Deploy Trident and Cloud Volumes ONTAP as Persistent Storage
Cloud Manager automates the deployment of Trident on Kubernetes cluster so you can use Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) as persistent storage for containers. Managing persistent storage is one of the major challenges for containerization. Trident, NetApp's dynamic...
Gather_fact Is Now Just Info
Ansible has asked us to change the name of one of our modules. The module ‘na_ontap_gather_facts’ will be known simply as ‘na_ontap_info’ from Ansible release 2.9 and onwards. The gather_facts version is being deprecated but will still work in the 2.9 release so...
Its’s All Coming Together Nicely
With the release of Ansible 2.9, Red Hat will officially be introducing Collections. To quote Red Hat documentation “Collections are a distribution format for Ansible content. They can be used to package and distribute playbooks, roles, modules, and plugins. You can...
Dealing with the Unexpected
“Unexpected Error”. If you have been using the NetApp Ansible modules and seen this error, you know it can be frustrating as it doesn’t give any useful information. This error is 99.9% of the time one of the following four issues, and I will do my best to explain how...
Trident 19.07 is now GA
Is it August already? Time flies when you are having fun! The Trident team has been hard at work this summer to deliver some great new features in the 19.07 version of Trident, which is now available! Here’s the lowdown on what’s new with Trident 19.07. Azure NetApp...