Ansible Tower Workflows
Workflow Templates link multiple Job Templates together. These Job Templates don’t even have to share inventory, Playbooks or even permissions. Furthermore, the links can be conditional. For example: If job template A succeeds, job template B automatically executes...
Documentation in the Collection Age
Normally docs.ansible.com is where you would go to get all the documentation for the modules you are using. Currently this information is not updated from collections. As a result it is often out of date. Red Hat has said they are making changes so that the URL...
A Primer on Prometheus and Trident – Exposing Metrics with Trident 20.01
In case you hadn’t noticed, the 20.01 release delivered support for Prometheus metrics. Trident now exposes a host of metrics that can be queried with Prometheus and used to obtain greater insight into the operations that Trident handles. This blog walks you through...
Virtual Storage Pools for ONTAP Backends
As part of our first major release of 2020, the Trident team has introduced a host of new features. This includes Virtual Storage Pools support for ONTAP backends, enhancing Trident’s ability to define StorageClasses to be backend-agnostic and employ key-value pairs...
Trident 20.01 – New Year, New Features and More
It has been a lightning-quick beginning to the new year. As we still wonder where January went (can you believe a month has gone by so quickly?!), the Trident team is pleased to announce our first release for this calendar year. The 20.01 release introduces support...
What You Need To Know Before Upgrading Your Kubernetes Cluster – Trident 20.01+, K8s 1.17+ & Volume Snapshots
Important: When should I take action? Note: This blog details items to consider when: upgrading Trident from 19.07.x or 19.10.x to 20.01.x and above. upgrading Kubernetes to 1.17 and above. Do you have alpha snapshots present? Read this blog in its entirety if alpha...
Working with AWX Tower – Adding a Project and a first Template.
This is the third installment in my series on ‘Working with AWX Tower’. I have already covered installing AWX Tower and setting up credentials for working with an ONTAP cluster previously. Now I am going to show you how to add a Project and the first Template from...
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...
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...
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...