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...
It’s the end of October and you know what that means: 20.10 is here!
As we approach the tail end of 2020, it has been a year of surprises. Some that no one ever saw coming: who would have thought we’d all be working from home for as long as it has been? And others that have been way more pleasant: Project Astra launched its Beta...
Advanced Topic: Information gathering and dynamic use with na_ontap_info
Trident, Prometheus and PromQL – sample queries to monitor Trident and its volumes
If you haven’t been living under a rock, you have probably heard about Prometheus and Grafana. Both are great tools to implement a monitoring framework that is visually descriptive and powerful. Trident provides a set of Prometheus metrics that you can use to obtain...
Configure StorageGRID Ansible project on AWX
Ansible is a simple yet powerful IT automation engine that helps users automates day-to-day repetitive tasks. Adding Ansible Towers or AWX to this powerful engine will give users role-based access to perform tasks and leverage other features like scheduling, creating...
Instant App-Consistent Snapshots on Azure NetApp Files
Moving demanding enterprise applications to the cloud often exposes you to highly complex challenges. Whether you're dealing with performance and latency limitations or developing your own tools to protect critical data, there are serious issues to struggle with. Do...
All Under One Roof: Importing SAN Volumes with ontap-san in Trident
One of the new 20.07 features that I’m interested in is ontap-san imports. For a while now, users of ONTAP clusters have been looking for a way to bring preexisting SAN volumes into their Kubernetes clusters through Trident. Importing existing data stores as...
A Word to the Wise – It Might Be Time to Upgrade Trident
Now is as good a time as ever to move to the latest Trident release. The team is committed to delivering four releases in every calendar year. Each release builds on top of the previous one, providing improved feature support and enhanced capabilities that aim to make...
Summertime Fun In the Sun with Trident 20.07
I always look forward to summer. There’s something about the heat and the long days that makes me realize I failed at keeping up with most of my fitness resolutions from New Year’s. In all fairness, social distancing did play a part this year! That hasn’t deterred the...
Fast Tip: Showcasing Certificate Authentication from Ansible Tower
This previous post showed how to setup and use SSL certificates for authentication instead of a username/password combination. The post mentioned that this can be used with Tower as well. This new post will show the minor updates to a Projects repository that are...
Automating StorageGRID Operations with Ansible
The first release of the Ansible Modules for StorageGRID is centered around automation and orchestration of Day-1 and Day-2 operations. If you’ve been following the many Ansible blog posts here at netapp.io, you will already be familiar with how Ansible makes it easy...
Introducing Ansible Modules for StorageGRID
Step up your Automation game on StorageGRID Performing repetitive tasks can be very boring and can feel like a waste of time. Automating these repetitive tasks can give back teams more time to focus on solving real problems. Which is why we decided to make it easier...