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...
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...
Running a Playbook Against Multiple ONTAP Clusters
In all the examples we have shared so far, we haven’t been using an inventory file; instead we are simply setting ‘hosts: localhost’. A question I get asked from time to time is “How can a playbook be run against multiple clusters without having to use outside...
Using On-Demand Snapshots with CSI Trident
As you would have already heard, the 19.07 Alpha release is packed with some cool new features, of which Volume Snapshots is an important one. Trident 19.07 Alpha is designed to provide on-demand Volume Snapshots and support the creation of Persistent Volumes...
All New CSI Trident!
Let me introduce the all new CSI Trident, now available with Trident 19.07 Alpha! The Container Storage Interface (CSI) provides a standard to enable provisioners to talk with multiple orchestrators. This is a community effort driven by the Cloud Native Computing...
Welcome to Trident 19.07 Alpha!
This summer, the Trident team has something new to offer! As part of the 19.07 Alpha release, Trident includes the following new features that make it easier to integrate with Kubernetes. It is important to note that the 19.07 Alpha release is meant for...
Extending Kubernetes to Manage Trident’s State
We have been busy this summer making some improvements to Tridents plumbing. With it comes Trident v19.07 Alpha! Two major changes are happening, the introduction of CSI Trident and the introduction of Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRD) for Trident. This...
Simple Made Simpler – Ansible Roles for ONTAP Select
Businesses want simple, automated ways to manage their complex data infrastructure. Ansible makes this easier with features like modules, roles and playbooks. This post discusses the two new Ansible roles that have been published for the ONTAP Select product to help...