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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
